<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a490c640-3e01-4b42-b1db-94c0a79951d8/B80BB528-5ADA-4A46-9884-1B41063DA23E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/" href="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.impactlab.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/"><H1 class="main_title"><A title="Permanent Link to Cloud Computing - New Buzz Word To Describe New Trend" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/" linkindex="7">Cloud Computing - New Buzz Word To Describe New Trend</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/"><DIV class="date">September 7th, 2008 at 11:42 am</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.impactlab.com/img/AA2D07D0-C630-404F-8421-71A113CFF545" alt="Cloud Computing - New Buzz Word To Describe New Trend" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/"><P>Computer geeks do so love using weird and oddly poetic buzz words to describe new trends.  From these formidable minds, we mere mortals were handed such gems as “phishing”, “blog”, “spam”, “digg” and “cookies”. Yes, cookies.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/"><P>Here’s another one that you’ve probably heard being mentioned in your travels on the <A href="#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#8a0202"><SPAN class="kLink">internet</SPAN></FONT></A>: cloud computing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/"><P>It does sound a bit up in the air, so I’m going to try and describe it in as simple a way as I can.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/"><P>At its most basic level, cloud computing is an internet-based service that you can use - without having to understand the technology behind it - to satisfy whatever computer need you may have.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/">In other words, its using software available “in the clouds” of the internet, so to speak. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/">You do whatever you want done via the internet, with software installed on a “virtual” <A href="#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="#8a0202"><SPAN class="kLink">computer</SPAN></FONT></A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B80BB528-5ADA-4A46-9884-1B41063DA23E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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