6. Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a system that is particularly useful for large companies.  The process of cloud computing and cloud storage is that information and software packages can be accessed through a a web-based system.  It is cost efficient because instead of all user's computers requiring its own package of a certain software or need more hardware to store information, the computers that are in charge of running the cloud network are the ones that need software and hardware.  General user's computers still have access to all the information and storage they need without all this stuff taking up their CPU's memory.

An example of cloud computing and storage are online e.mail engines such as aol or yahoo.  With these, users have access to all the data in their email without all that information being stored onto their own computer.

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