CLOUD COMPUTING

Back when a mainframe computer filled an entire room, users all accessed programs remotely on terminals which were the ancestors of today’s PCs and laptops. 

Soon we will be accessing software and data remotely again–but from the Internet cloud.

 We will achieve dramatic improvements in productivity and reductions in costs.

Until recently, almost all of us had moved to a model of individual PCs or Macs on which all of our business applications lived. 

 Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics all lived locally. 

If we worked in an office, we left them behind at night on the company PC. 

 That changed slightly as the pervasive use of laptops allowed work to follow us almost anywhere. 

 We are about to change again.

Thanks to the Internet, lots of smart companies and business people, are moving everything to the Internet cloud.