Last year I wrote a series of articles on the absolutely riveting subject of cloud computing. I don’t know that it generated any sales of Rocket Matter (my company’s cloud based legal software product), but today I received a very nice note from a Computers 101 teacher. He’s going to be assigning my article to his students.
Anyhow, if you’re wondering what the cloud is that they keep talking about on those pretentious IBM commercials, here’s a brief idea:
“To understand how cloud computers are organized, imagine you’re a general trying to a direct an army. Instead of individually ordering each of the infantrymen to follow an order, you direct an officer. The officer disseminates the information to the troops and makes adjustments based on their performance and environment. If an individual infantryman falls, another one can compensate.
It’s the same with the new server architectures. Instead of communicating with individual machines, commands are issued to the intermediate layer.”
To read the full torturous article and feel the pain of the Computers 101 class, click here.
Congrats on the kudos! And, I think it’s a very riveting topic, for whatever that’s worth;)