I used to look up in the sky for clouds, but now we are computing in the clouds and it means a whole different thing. I have had a hard time understanding what all the fuss is about when you start talking about how you store your files on the internet instead of on your computer. I guess the main thing about the reason they say you are cloud computing is because like the clouds in the sky, you can see them and you know they are there, but you can’t actually touch them with your fingers. So an online data room is a room that doesn’t really exist where you put file cabinets and tables or shelves – it is just a part of the internet where you stuff is – you can’t touch it with your fingers but you can see it and get to it by computer.

So if you have a lot of important information and you store it in the cloud computing method, that means a lot of people can get to it and see it, with your permission, of course. So if you were buying a business, all the legal parties involved in buying that business could get the information from your cloud. The lawyers for the buyer and the seller, the real estate brokers, the accountants, the lenders would perform their acquisition due diligence with a simple log in and pass code that you provide.

I think it is great ha businesses can do so much with computers now and that they will be computing in the clouds as a fast and efficient way to share information. They can also get localization services online, which helps when you are doing business internationally. After all, this is the World Wide Web!

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