I read a great analogy about cloud computing recently. Think of
the cloud as your electric company: You plug something into the
wall and electricity flows. You didn’t generate the electricity
and you probably don’t know where it came from. All you care
about is whether whatever you plugged into the wall works. Cloud
computing works in much the same way. Through an Internet
connection you can access whatever files, data or applications
you’ve chosen to store in the cloud anytime, anywhere and on any
device.How did cloud computing come about?The traditional way
most companies deployed software is referred to as on premise.
This means a company installed the software it wanted to run on
computers it owned that were at its offices. Because of the rise
of the Internet in the 1990s, a new software deployment option
called hosting evolved. This is when a company’s software
physically resides at a third-party data center — the hosting
site — where it is managed for the company by a technology
service provider. The co