Tag: Random Access Memory (RAM)

A new year is upon us! It's a time for relaxation, reflection, and making plans for the next twelve months. We might do some cleaning, clearing out the previous year's clutter, and get our thoughts in order for when we return to our offices, dorms, and classrooms.

In the last decade or two, there have been significant advances in cloud computing, the provision of software-implemented services (Software-as-a-Service or SaaS) and web-based applications. These offerings rely on software that runs on a remote server and are accessed by users from their own computer, via a network connection (rather than being locally installed on the internal memory of a user’s computer).