
Cloud Tech by Leap Years and Bounds
2012 is a “Leap Year,” where we get an extra day tagged onto the end of the month of February. It only occurs every four years, but why does it happen at all? Because the earth doesn’t orbit the sun in exactly 365 days; it’s more like 365 days and 6 hours, so we have to add an extra day to make that “leap” to keep the calendar consistent. In terms of the cloud, what great leaps have we seen in this area of technology? The concept of “cloud computing” actually dates back to the 1960s, but it didn’t begin …
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