The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet
to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a
personal computer.
Cloud services
The delivery of computing services (servers, storage, databases,
networking, software, analytics, and more) over the internet
Cloud
It’s a place other than your computer that you can use to store
Cloud applications
An application that provides the functionality of a native application, but which runs in the cloud and is
interacted with via web browsers and APIs. Instead of being installed in a local computer, it's hosted on the server.
Examples: Microsoft Office 365, Box, Google apps, etc.
Advantages and disadvantages
of cloud computing
Advantages
People can customize and
scale devices to fit their
needs
People can get applications to
market quickly
Gives a competitive advantage by
providing innovative technology
People are able to do more together and
do it better
Disadvantages
It makes you dependent of your internet connection. If
you have no internet connection, you have no access
to your data
Internet isn't very safe. You never now
how safe your data is
You can't insert documents created in other application or
transfer information into other systems
Web applications
A Web application is an application program that is stored on a remote server and delivered
over the Internet through a browser interface.
Examples: Facebook, Pandora, Hulu, etc.
Connections
The connection between this topics are that they involve technology, businesses can use them, they give us
many benefits, etc. Without them, some thing would be more complicated.