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the cloud began to take on a more refined meaning. By 2006, the cloud was no longerjust a synonym for the Internet; instead, the cloud had come to mean a large,interconnected network of servers which allows users to access data stored on theserver from anywhere that they can connect to the Internet. 4In its simplest terms, cloudcomputing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead offrom your computer's hard drive.Figure 1. A row of secured, air-cooled Cloud servers.Within a few years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”)developed the first working definition for cloud computing 5 . The NIST defines cloudcomputing as “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared4 Id.5 The terms Cloud and Cloud Computing are used interchangeably.3