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Cloud Computing: The power of one

In their quest to find answers, experts have demonstrated that the future of medical discoveries, environmental challenges, energy deficit, all lie in collaborating through Cloud Computing. With Cloud Computing, users have been able to access data, share expertise and high-end infrastructure from around the world, and vice-versa. The resources are shared through a public platform like the internet. Several companies like Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, etc have invested heavily as they reach out to users. Cloud Computing companies have customers of three kinds - Infrastructure-as-a-service: Option of renting and utilizing computing power and storage capacity of vendor's quality. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): Vendors license particular services to subscribers on-demand and once the contract expires, the services are disabled. Platform-as-a-Service: Here a developer is given the opportunity to utilize various web-tools to build and host applications. The Cloud (other computers in the network