2010 Ten trends: Cloud computing

A simple way of thinking about cloud computing is to consider the idea of moving all the physical servers and applications that are located inside a school into a hosted environment outside the organisation (in the 'cloud'). The 'cloud' is not an actual physical "thing", but may be loosely thought of as a collection of networked servers. Cloud computing options will provide an attractive alternative to schools looking to spread the risk of their ICT investment

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