Cloud computing, method of running application software and storing related data in central computer systems and providing customers or other users access to them through the Internet.

The origin of the expression cloud computing is obscure, but it appears to derive from the practice of using drawings of stylized clouds to denote networks in diagrams of computing and communications systems. The term came into popular use in 2008, though the practice of providing remote access to computing functions through networks dates back to the mainframe time-sharing systems of the 1960s and 1970s. In his 1966 book The Challenge of the Computer Utility, the Canadian electrical engineer Douglas F. Parkhill predicted that the computer industry would come to resemble a public utility in which many remotely located users are connected via communication links to a central computing facility.

For decades, efforts to create large-scale computer utilities were frustrated by constraints on the capacity of telecommunications networks such as the telephone system. It was cheaper and easier for companies and other organizations to store data and run applications on private computing systems maintained within their own facilities.

The constraints on network capacity began to be removed in the 1990s when telecommunications companies invested in high-capacity fibre-optic networks in response to the rapidly growing use of the Internet as a shared network for exchanging information. In the late 1990s, a number of companies, called application service providers (ASPs), were founded to supply computer applications to companies over the Internet. Most of the early ASPs failed, but their model of supplying applications remotely became popular a decade later, when it was renamed cloud computing.

Cloud computing encompasses a number of different services. One set of services, sometimes called software as a service (SaaS), involves the supply of a discrete application to outside users. The application can be geared either to business users (such as an accounting application) or to consumers (such as an application for storing and sharing personal photographs). Another set of services, variously called utility computing, grid computing, and hardware as a service (HaaS), involves the provision of computer processing and data storage to outside users, who are able to run their own applications and store their own data on the remote system. A third set of services, sometimes called platform as a service (PaaS), involves the supply of remote computing capacity along with a set of software-development tools for use by outside software programmers.

Early pioneers of cloud computing include Salesforce.com, which supplies a popular business application for managing sales and marketing efforts; Google, Inc., which in addition to its search engine supplies an array of applications, known as Google Apps, to consumers and businesses; and Amazon Web Services, a division of online retailer Amazon.com, which offers access to its computing system to Web-site developers and other companies and individuals. Cloud computing also underpins popular social networks and other online media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Traditional software companies, including Microsoft Corporation, Apple Inc., Intuit Inc., and Oracle Corporation, have also introduced cloud applications.

Cloud-computing companies either charge users for their services, through subscriptions and usage fees, or provide free access to the services and charge companies for placing advertisements in the services. Because the profitability of cloud services tends to be much lower than the profitability of selling or licensing hardware components and software programs, it is viewed as a potential threat to the businesses of many traditional computing companies.

Construction of the large data centres that run cloud-computing services often requires investments of hundreds of millions of dollars. The centres typically contain thousands of server computers networked together into parallel-processing or grid-computing systems. The centres also often employ sophisticated virtualization technologies, which allow computer systems to be divided into many virtual machines that can be rented temporarily to customers. Because of their intensive use of electricity, the centres are often located near hydroelectric dams or other sources of cheap and plentiful electric power.

Because cloud computing involves the storage of often sensitive personal or commercial information in central database systems run by third parties, it raises concerns about data privacy and security as well as the transmission of data across national boundaries. It also stirs fears about the eventual creation of data monopolies or oligopolies. Some believe that cloud computing will, like other public utilities, come to be heavily regulated by governments.

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This is a list of all Cloud Computing ETFs traded in the USA which are currently tagged by ETF Database. Please note that the list may not contain newly issued ETFs. If youre looking for a more simplified way to browse and compare ETFs, you may want to visit our ETFdb.com Categories, which categorize every ETF in a single best fit category.

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With cloud security spending in the United States expected to reach $1.93 billion by 2021, colleges and universities are paying attention to the fastest-growing job market. During a recent public session of the Morgan State University (MSU) Board of Regents fall meeting, Board members voted to allow the university to pursue the addition of a new Bachelor of Science degree in Cloud Computing.

According to a university statement, pending approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission, a Cloud Computing degree at Morgan would advance opportunities for students in a growing field.

The proposed Bachelor of Science in Cloud Computing program would be offered online as well as in a traditional classroom setting, providing educational experiences to adult learners and other nontraditional students.

I applaud the Boards foresight as it relates to preparing Morgan for the future. For our students to solve the problems of tomorrow, we need to offer them the programs that address those problems today, and cloud computing is at the top of the list, said David Wilson, president of Morgan State University.

According to a PreciseSecurity dot com study, the increasing need for cloud security services is a result of rapid cloud computing market growth, followed by a significant number of threats and attacks.Data breaches have become one of the most critical cloud security threats, causing damage to companies. Other significant threats to cloud security are the lack of cloud security strategy, deficient access management, and account hijacking.Phishing attempts are on the top of that list.

In its statement, Morgan State University says increasingly the demand for data infrastructures that can be stored, secured and accessed from anywhere and at any time requires a cloud-based solution.

Cloud computing will give students the knowledge and skills in cloud services and applications to work in the industry, academia, and government as cloud administrators, computer architects, modelers, engineers, application developers, security specialists, analytics specialists, analysts and researchers, the statement said.

Microsoft Azure describes cloud computing as the delivery of computing servicesincluding servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligenceover the Internet (the cloud) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.

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Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix has hired former Nexenta CEO Tarkan Maner as its new chief commercial officer in a move to help build Nutanix into a hybrid cloud leader.

Tarkan brings an entrepreneurial mindset and an acute awareness of the computing landscape to lead Nutanix in its second decade, said Nutanix CEO and founder Dheeraj Pandey. His authentic leadership style, a clear bias for action, and a broad industry network have helped him create high-energy companies, as Ive observed him from afar. Given his deep sense of commitment to company-building, I look forward to this new partnership to build Nutanix into a hybrid cloud powerhouse.

Maner previously served as chairman and CEO for Nexenta Systems, one of the groundbreaking developers of software-defined storage technology. Nexenta was acquired this year by DataDirect Networks (DDN), which develops high-performance storage for modern workloads.

Prior to Nexenta, Maner was also president and CEO of virtual desktop computing pioneer Wyse Technology, which was acquired by Dell in 2012.

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Maner said he plans to accelerate Nutanixs position as a leader in enterprise cloud computing. Nutanix has accomplished so much over the past ten years, but theres so much potential to go even further, he said in a statement. I am excited to charge ahead and play a critical role in helping realize Nutanixs vision of making computing invisible, anywhere.

Maner will lead Nutanixs global business development and corporate development efforts with a focus on strategic partnerships, system integrators and service providers.

His responsibilities include leading Nutanixs hybrid cloud strategy and product teams such as its core visualization platform (AHV) and software-defined networking. He will also lead some of Nutanixs key hybrid cloud services including Xi Frame for end-user computing, Xi Leap for disaster recovery services, Era for database-as-a-service, and the Xi Partner Network.

Maner brings over 25 years of executive experience to Nutanix including top roles for IBM, CA Technologies and currently serves as a board member of various companies including CloudCheckr and Teradici.

Maner will take over many of the tasks previously held by Sunil Potti, Nutanixs former chief product and development officer, who left this year to join Google Cloud.

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