Google Docs – Files in the Sky?
Google has long introduced Google apps for the general public and commercial clients alike as an example of the new and improved cloud computing architecture that the future of the internet rests on. Industry experts like them have been steadily developing and releasing applications that utilizes the fact that deployment is way cheaper in the clouds for the hardware is owned by some of the more established companies who more or less know what they are doing for they have withstood the test of time. Yahoo, Apple and many others have been constantly re-writing the way the internet is used as a tool for commercial purposes allowing them to offer better and faster services without the very strict proprietary requirements that used to haunt Microsoft based systems.
The cloud has been opened and people have begun to notice the benefits of using it. Huge companies who have lost business but have the hardware are getting business from the cloud, metering the used resources of their clients. The clients on the other hand love the deal so much they have no need for expensive data centers which is one of the most volatile investments they have to engage in.