Alex Lanes from The Motley Fool has posted a Cloud primer for investors.
If you ask 10 technology experts to define cloud computing, you might get 10 different answers. If you don’t know what it is, how can you expect to invest well? Well, here’s your flash-card answer: Cloud computing is the computer as a utility. While they lack monopoly power, the best cloud-computing providers, like utilities, leverage superior scale and per-use payment plans to offer resources at lower costs than what most companies could get on their own. Like utilities, no cloud service could exist without the necessary inputs — in this case, hardware suppliers. At the other end of the chain, cloud users are restricted only by the limits of computers themselves, allowing for incredibly diverse opportunities.
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