This is my first blogpost on the Cloud4Bizz blog, so of course I was thinking what to write. As I am a ‘non-techie’ my blog posts will be more about what you can do with the technologies than zooming into the technology itself. That’s something for my Cloud4Bizz partners.

Yesterday it came to me: The Cloud. Our whole business is based on the Cloud, as our company name implies: Cloud4Bizz – Cloud for Business. If you are going to understand what we do and offer, it’s vital to know what the Cloud actually is.

But yesterday, I got kicked off my ‘cloud’ and landed with both feet firmly on the Earth again. I spoke to the director of a small company and told him about Cloud4Bizz. “Sounds good”, he said, “but what is the Cloud?”

What is the Cloud?

A very good question. Very simply put, the Cloud means that all your applications and resources are available anywhere, via the internet. They are on a server somewhere in some data-centre. Most likely you will not have any clue on which exact piece of hardware they are sitting. This contrasts with having a server at home or in the office, where you can physically see the green, orange or blue lights flicker on the server indicating to you “I am active, working for you”.

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