What Does "The Cloud" Look Like?

CNN Reporter John Sutter hunts for "The Cloud" and finds lots of secrecy. While more and more of us use and rely on cloud computing, we, like John, don't really know where our files really live. John's story takes us across the world to a growing number of huge, bricks and mortar data centers. A short video also explains the basics of cloud computing.


In the video below, CNET's reporter Ida Fried peers inside Microsoft's new data center. Two if its designers describe some of the planning and technical design aspects behind such data centers.