Cloud computing has become the latest buzz in today’s technology world for the public and businesses. Millions of people trust this software to store their e-mail, appointment calendars, and address books through websites such as Google. It is a type of Internet-based computing that relies on sharing computing resources as opposed to having local servers or personal devices to control applications. Various services such as servers, storage, and applications are sent to a company computers and devices via Internet through this computing.  [1]  Business owners have big ideas to streamline and simplify their businesses and have the greatest amount of sales possible. Accomplishing these goals, by things such as business applications, on top of the expenses to just run a business, is extremely expensive. There’s all of this software and applications out like Windows Vista SP2 and Oracle 11.1 GP1, that’s not only expensive, but once there’s a problem, it’s long and sometimes unsuccessful job. Cloud computing is much more lucrative and simple than this because instead of a business running apps itself, cloud computing is run on shared data- all one has to do is just plug it in, login, customize it and get started. Not only is this easy and saves a great amount of time, but it also costs much less. This is similar to comparing Gmail and Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft Exchange requires servers and storage, upgrades, and a technical team to keep it up and running. This model is so much better that it is changing the way many think about software not only for consumer apps but also business apps, which is referred to as Enterprise Cloud Computing. [2]  Although cloud computing seems like a great idea for everyone, many businesses do not agree. That is because they are more cautious with trusting the Internet with their precious, private corporate information. Cloud computing services do have the risk of failure, which will leave its users with no access to programs or data. Online companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft all do experience server outages every once in awhile. [3]  One of cloud computing’s largest failures was in October 2009 with T-Mobile’s Sidekick Smartphone. This Smartphone utilized cloud computing data service from Microsoft, known as Danger, Inc. to backup user data from his or her phone. The data included user contacts, calendars, notes, photos, messages, etc., which was all deleted from each and every phone as this system failed and had no backup system. Fortunately for some people, they were able to recover their data, and for the ones who were not able to, they were compensated with a $100 credit. [4]  Yes, many users fear of losing all of their important, but the success cloud computing could bring out for many people and businesses is incredible. A great, recent example of this is Tim Bell, who works as a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) infrastructure manager and has found a way to accelerate science with cloud computing. Every day, Bell and his co-workers work towards making sure operating systems, mail and security infrastructure are working properly and efficiently to serve 11,000 physicists. CERN maintains 11,000 servers at its location outside of Geneva, Switzerland, that create preliminary reconstructions of particle collisions before sending data to similar, smaller organizations all over the world. Bell says, “Roughly 600 million collisions a second are whittled down to 60,000 to make them possible to compute, and then 600 are selected as especially interesting for further review. That results in about 25 petabytes of data that need to be stored each year...It has become a key tool for physicists to able to understand the nature of matter and the universe itself...The ability to turn around rapid amounts of analysis and allow the physicists to explore the results [is part of] delivering discoveries.” [5]  Overall, the success of cloud computing overrules the possibility of failure for many users. All of the new netbooks and small notebook computers are ultimately designed for accessing Web applications, and nettops, which are an indication of the direction of computing. The strength and storage size of computers can fade away greatly as cloud computing expands. High-speed wireless access, a keyboard, and a screen is all that is necessary for “computing in the cloud”. [1] http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/cloud_computing.html [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae_DKNwK_ms [3] pg. 179: Fundamentals of Information Technology. By Ralph Stair and George Reynolds. 6thEdition. [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss [5] http://gigaom.com/2013/07/22/at-cern-tim-bell-is-accelerating-science-with-cloud-computing/