What is cloud computing?

CLOUD COMPUTING (by Kali with tongue in cheek)

Tomar: I don’t understand a simple calculator and now they come up with cloud computing!

Dixit: That is the purpose, to cloud your brain and finally shift its memory to the clouds you see above!

Hari: What happens to the vacant space in the brain?

Dixit: Fill it with all sorts of crap thoughts, pictures and videos much as they do now through the net.

Tomar: Then why go all the way to the clouds?

Hari: Well, probably to avoid governmental controls as clouds don’t belong to anyone!!!

Dixit: Smart ass huh!

Tomar: But a cloud is only suspended ice particles with dust and other pollutants sticking on to them, so how will they give it a memory?

Dixit: You heard of cloud seeding and how they make it give us rain, so, they must have devised a way of creating a memory also.

Hari: How is that possible, when the heat is up, the cloud dissipates and when the heat is down, the cloud turns to water and comes down as rain and sometimes as hail. What happens to the memory then?

Dixit: Hail Hitler!

Tomar: The clouds will have to precipitate, to give us information!!!

Dixit: What are you talking?

Hari: Yes he is correct; there are no cables or modems connecting the computer to the cloud!

Tomar: In that case we will have to keep our computers out in the open and let the rain enter them!

Hari: Correct and all computers/components/accessories will have to be made water-proof!

Tomar: But, wouldn’t it be inconvenient sitting out in the open under the rain just to use cloud computing?

Dixit: Both you guys are nuts, here comes the HCL guy with his super looking dame. Let’s ask him.

HCL guy: Hi guys, and how are our computers helping you?

Hari: I use a HP Compaq laptop…

Tomar: and I, a Casio calculator…

Dixit: I use a Sony Vaio personally autographed by Kareena…

HCL guy: So what’s bothering you guys?

Super looking dame: Darling, where is that handsome banker?

HCL guy: Ctrl + Alt + Del… (the super looking dame disappears). OK, now let us get down to business.

Dixit: We were all confused about cloud computing and so we thought that you may be able to explain it better.

HCL guy: Yeah, it is very simple; all servers connected by the net are attached to balloons and are allowed to float in the air very high up amongst the clouds.

Tomar: Whatever for?

HCL guy: So that countries like China and India cannot put filters on information like what Hefner is doing with his 25 year old fiancée!

Dixit: And how will the servers be powered?

HCL guy: By tapping into lightning…

Hari: And modems?

HCL guy: You ask too much, you see our technology for the modems is so super secret that even I don’t know how they operate!!!

Tomar, Dixit & Hari: (in unison) Are you sure this is nothing to do with the meteorologists?