Tech Topic Connection - Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a transformative technology that connects deeply with the core fundamentals of information technology and computer science explored throughout this course. At its essence, cloud computing leverages the history and principles of computing, hardware architecture, programming languages, application software, database management, and network infrastructure to deliver scalable, on-demand computing resources over the internet. To understand how cloud computing relates to IT fundamentals, we start with the history of computers and how computers operate. Cloud computing builds upon decades of evolution from large mainframes to personal computers and now to distributed computing models. Early computing was centralized, but cloud computing reintroduces centralization in the form of powerful remote data centers accessed via network connections. The basic operation of computers—processing data, storing information, and running softw...
