Most students use cloud technology every day, but they may have a limited understanding of how it works. This book traces the evolution of cloud computing in relation to other developing technologies, such as telecommunications devices and the internet. Students will gain awareness of the mechanisms of data storage and the increased information available to them through the cloud. They will read about the applications of this technology at school,...

"The first chapter gives an overview of cloud computing at a level accessible to a lay person. To motivate the reasons for a paradigm shift in the way we compute and store information, we introduce the concept of network-centric computing and network-centric content. A brief discussion of peer-to-peer systems, a first step in the shift from local to remote data storage and processing follows. The chapter continues with a discussion of technological...