What is cloud computing?

There’s a lot of confusion around this simple, elegant approach to marshaling computer resources. The marketing arms of many technology companies only make things worse with promises of world peace and perpetual motion.

Our CTO offers a concise definition: cloud computing is hardware as software. Our cloud computing platform allows you (and your programs, through our forthcoming API) to request and modify hardware resources as if they were software. Want more memory? Disk? Such physical resources can be adjusted on-demand without having to wait for a technician to power-down the server, open the server, install new RAM, and power-on. With cloud computing platform, hardware becomes flexible, like software.