I suspect that everyone knows by now that the business traveling life isn’t glamorous. On a recent trip to San Juan, as the clouds rolled in for the daily afternoon deluge that is typical for a Puerto Rican summer, I realized that the only real beauty in air travel is watching the clouds as the plane descends into the greater Chicagoland area, and I’m almost home.
Clouds can be beautiful things, and the “cloud” that all of the IT networking professionals are talking about is revolutionizing our industry in a beautiful way. While there are many highly technical explanations of cloud computing, in simple terms we are taking network services such as data storage, applications, and communications that are typically installed or available on a client’s LAN and instead using these services from the Internet.