Cloud computing doesn't really come from the sky. Much of it is actually delivered via underground and undersea cables. It's called 'cloud computing' because when engineers diagram their corporate ...

Forbes in its article “ Gartner Predicts Infrastructure Services Will Accelerate Cloud Computing Growth ”, dated February 19, 2013, shared Gartner analysts’ forecasts concerning cloud technologies’ ...

3. Defining cloud computing The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was one of the first to attempt a definition for cloud computing. See their Special Publication 800-145.