I’m sure you have heard of the new popular web term going around “the cloud”. You hear about it in the blogs. You see IBM commercials talking about things like “cloud computing” and working in “the cloud”. But what does all this really mean? What is Cloud Computing? What is “the cloud?”

I must admit that I am still trying to wrap my mind around the entire subject of cloud computing, but after hours of research and reading I am getting closer to fully understanding it. I thought I would share with you a video that helped me out in the beginning of my research to understand what cloud computing is.

Joyent.com put together a video during last year’s Web 2.0 conference where they interviewed many big name web people and asked them what they thought Cloud Computing is. This video is about 10 minutes long and I strongly recommend taking 10 minutes of your day, watch this video and prepare to take some notes.

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What did you think? Do you think you have a better idea of what Cloud Computing is? What questions do you have? I am preparing to write some more info that I have learned on the subject and i’m looking to know what questions you guys might have.