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What is the cloud?
From the course: Cert Prep: ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
What is the cloud?
- [Instructor] Cloud computing is the most transformative development in information technology in the past decade. Organizations around the world are retooling their entire IT strategies to embrace the cloud, and this change is causing disruptive impact across all sectors of technology. But what is the cloud? Let's start with a simple definition. In my view, cloud computing is any case where computing services are being delivered to a customer at a remote location over a network. Now this definition is broad and it encompasses many different types of activity. When you access your Gmail account, you're making use of cloud computing. Google is providing you with email service over the internet. You don't need to know or care about the massive technical infrastructure that makes Gmail work. You simply open your web browser and visit the site. All the technology magic is transparent to you. When you build a server in…
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