Cloud computing

Basically, personal cloud computing means having every piece of data you need for every aspect of your life at your fingertips and ready for use. Data must be mobile, transferable, and instantly accessible. The key to enabling the portable and interactive you is the ability to synch up your data among your devices, as well as access to shared data. Shared data is the data we access online in any number of places, such as social networks, banks, blogs, newsrooms, paid communities, etc.

Cloud computing for Africa is the dream come true since the main hindering factors of the advancement of IT industry in Africa where infrastructures and going cloud meaning that increasing ability to share resources in a virtual world rather than using physical hardware and resources in which in one way or the other it was difficult to achieve in our continent. For example now we don’t have to move physical servers and hardware from one area to another and reduce the cost and complications of installation since everything can be shared cloudily on the web.

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).

In a cloud computing system, there's a significant workload shift. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to running applications. The network of computers that make up the cloud handles them instead. Hardware and software demands on the user's side decrease. The only thing the user's computer needs to be able to run is the cloud computing system's interface software, which can be as simple as a Web browser, and the cloud's network takes care of the rest.

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably already using cloud-based services. Pretty much everyone with a computer has been. Gmail and Google Docs are two prime examples another example is the Microsoft share point and other applications are being developed.