InterCloud Systems Inc. (ICLD)

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In the "olden days", when I was a mere bench tech, each company had a 'server' and we all had 'terminals', which were dumb, and only accessed data on the server so we could work. The servers actually did the work and displayed the result to us. Computers were slow then, so we waited a lot. If that server went down, the company went dark.

Then came the PC evolution, which resulted in 'servers' where the pc's did the majority of the work, and the servers just provided the data. That lasted decades, but is now being replaced by 'cloud' computing.

In cloud computing, there are powerful computers that can crunch the numbers, so you can use 'weak' terminals, similar to the first case above. But now, the 'server' is available from anywhere, using any device and can provide the same results. Check out your own stock broker's site to see what I mean - your phone isn't doing the work, their servers are, and showing you the results. That's the cloud at work.

For ICLD, that means providing the 'wires', the networking system that makes the cloud work. They also host servers, similar to AWS, but not everyone likes AWS, because it gives Amazon a competitive advantage against everyone, since all shipping info is on their servers. Thus, ICLD has a good future as it will not be a competitor, but a service only. That is a good thing for ICLD. Anyone that competes against Amazon should be considering ICLD for their cloud services.