7 Ways to Get Started With Cloud Computing

Ellyssa Kroski — September 23, 2011

David Strom at ReadWriteWeb provides tips on 7 Ways to Get Started With Cloud Computing. This helpful post discusses a variety of ways to dabble in the cloud domain for those of you who are still unfamiliar with these services. Here are the seven ways covered in the article:

  1. Set up a Google Docs account
  2. Do the same thing for Box.net
  3. Use one of the cloud-based spreadsheet programs
  4. Use the Salesforce for Intuit QuickBooks
  5. Windows Live Mesh
  6. Set up a server on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  7. Setup two Windows machines on Cloudshare.com