In the last dozen years working in IT, I have heard the concept of cloud computing tossed around as a "neat and interesting” concept, maybe good for hosting a service or two (such as Saleforce.com or a company web server), and for small businesses that could not afford network and server infrastructure, but not really [...]

I was recently reading the comments on a post from Gizmodo showing the incredible growth of Google since 1996, summed up by the following graph (which is just an excerpt of this infographic): Gizmodo via Computer School Not only is the growth amazing, so is their ability to keep up with that growth. Clearly, Google [...]