Take the 2-minute tour ×  What is cloud computing? What can I
make with it?  share|improve this question  closed as not a real
question by Byron Whitlock, Jim Lewis, Naveen, Loki Astari,
balexandre Aug 17 '10 at 7:11   Sorry suraj, this is something
you can easily find on Google.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing –  Byron Whitlock Aug 17
'10 at 6:55 Don't we all. It is an overloaded term that means
slightly different things to different people. Thus the question
is too vague. –  Loki Astari Aug 17 '10 at 6:58 There are so
much things that "I want to" ... –  Cedric H. Aug 17 '10 at 7:01
2 Answers 2  The basic idea is that you run a service on a whole
farm of servers managed by someone else, so you don't have to
care about maintenance.  This makes it way easier to scale
things, since you just have adjust some number in the control
panel and the cloud (just a fancy name for datacenter) will
start your program on new servers / VMs.  share|improve this
answer