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Group: Cloud Computing, SaaS & Virtualization Discussion: How do you explain cloud computing to your colleagues? It would largely depend on the technical knowledgeable of the people I would be explaining it to; but I would identify the cloud as a distributed network drive; either local or remote. I would also make the analogy that any file could be visualized as a swarm of bees, where the cloud is the hive. The data is in constant motion within the cloud; each packet of data cloned so that should a drive fail and packets lost there are clones to take there place. Upon client request for a file - the swarm representing that file exit the hive in no observable order (random security encryption) to be reassembled into proper order by the client machine. Posted by Jonathan Michael

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