A Visitor from the Clouds

It isn't just about being a programmer. So Shadrach White came to class today to discuss his business, what it does what it is and how it applies to what we are learning. He is in the business of Cloud Computing, which is not exactly what I thought it was. It seems like a it is just using the power of servers and their vast amount of storage and computing power to run things remotely so they can be accessed from anywhere. His business focuses around using the Cloud networks to host and run programs for many different companies. I do not fully understand it because I thought cloud computing was supposed to be using the computational power from many different computers/servers to work on the same project. However it seems like that was not quite correct and it is more like just shared resources being accessible from any location. It seems like he is doing quite well for himself I imagine because he is using others resources for pennies on the dollar and just creating an interface between data structures. It does not cost much to use others services and create an interface. but if that is all that is required for cloud computing it seems very simple. It is almost like a blown out of proportion of an operating system having different processes or users in this case accessing the same resources. Overall his lecture was quite interesting and I might give it a try to mess around with AWS and Pearl to make something on the "Cloud".