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06-01-2011, 04:02 AM
Well, the time has passed and now we aren't using DOS or playing in Atari, are we? Before we used to save data on tapes, then the hard disks became popular, after that we all used floppies... CDs appeared, USB memory sticks too, then DVDs, etc. etc. Now we have blu-ray and 1TB hard disks, as well as desktop and laptop computers with 6GB RAM.
Mobility arrived and now it's for everyone: first, the cellphones made calls and sent SMSs; now, we have small machines with a shiny capacitive touch screen that do everything and also make phone calls and send emails, MMS, SMS, WAP messages, etc. and access the Internet.
Cloud computing arrived. Nowadays, there are lots of web services that allow you to store your digital life anywhere - and that can be both very good or very bad.
On one hand, you can send your files, contacts, notes to a "private" area on the internet and access them from everywhere, using your mobile phone, PDA, multimedia player (thinking on the iPad), netbook, notebook, laptop, desktop, or any public computer. You can work and collaborate on a work online (thinking on eyeOS 2), you can meet online (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), you can construct your farm online (thinking on Facebook's FarmVille) . Resuming: what before was saved on your computer's hard disk, can be now saved online (on the servers' hard disk. There are operating systems developed specifically to work with the cloud (Google Chrome OS).
On the other hand, any hacker can get in touch with your private data, and if your internet connection fails (or the server's connection) you won't access your private data during some moments (minutes, hours, days (thinking on SixServe and its upgrade to version 4, server1 restoration, etc)). And some geeks won't sleep so well if they think their data isn't saved on their hard disk .
This is my opinion about reliability (a bit longer, sorry for those that don't like reading).
About utility, I think it depends. Depends if you need to be accessing your files and communicating with others on the go. If you only need to use your computer and the information stored on your PC by evening, after work, and you don't need to work in group, then I don't think cloud computing would be so useful for you.
However, if you need to be permanently online and constantly needing your files, contacts, emails, needing to collaborate 24 hours a day with others in a group (thinking on a concept introduced in eyeOS 2), from my point of view cloud computing would be really useful.
If you don't know what cloud computing is, I think some reading and goggling would be really useful.
If you want a good example of cloud computing you can try eyeOS 2 here:
http://beta.eyeos.info/
Or try version 1.9 (more stable) of eyeOS available on Goona Webtop:
http://goonawebtop.tk - Create an account (recommended) or use the demo account (user: demo; password: demo)
I want to know other opinions about cloud computing.
Do you think it is fine to have your data online?
Would it be useful to have a social network combined with a cloud desktop?
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Mobility arrived and now it's for everyone: first, the cellphones made calls and sent SMSs; now, we have small machines with a shiny capacitive touch screen that do everything and also make phone calls and send emails, MMS, SMS, WAP messages, etc. and access the Internet.
Cloud computing arrived. Nowadays, there are lots of web services that allow you to store your digital life anywhere - and that can be both very good or very bad.
On one hand, you can send your files, contacts, notes to a "private" area on the internet and access them from everywhere, using your mobile phone, PDA, multimedia player (thinking on the iPad), netbook, notebook, laptop, desktop, or any public computer. You can work and collaborate on a work online (thinking on eyeOS 2), you can meet online (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), you can construct your farm online (thinking on Facebook's FarmVille) . Resuming: what before was saved on your computer's hard disk, can be now saved online (on the servers' hard disk. There are operating systems developed specifically to work with the cloud (Google Chrome OS).
On the other hand, any hacker can get in touch with your private data, and if your internet connection fails (or the server's connection) you won't access your private data during some moments (minutes, hours, days (thinking on SixServe and its upgrade to version 4, server1 restoration, etc)). And some geeks won't sleep so well if they think their data isn't saved on their hard disk .
This is my opinion about reliability (a bit longer, sorry for those that don't like reading).
About utility, I think it depends. Depends if you need to be accessing your files and communicating with others on the go. If you only need to use your computer and the information stored on your PC by evening, after work, and you don't need to work in group, then I don't think cloud computing would be so useful for you.
However, if you need to be permanently online and constantly needing your files, contacts, emails, needing to collaborate 24 hours a day with others in a group (thinking on a concept introduced in eyeOS 2), from my point of view cloud computing would be really useful.
If you don't know what cloud computing is, I think some reading and goggling would be really useful.
If you want a good example of cloud computing you can try eyeOS 2 here:
http://beta.eyeos.info/
Or try version 1.9 (more stable) of eyeOS available on Goona Webtop:
http://goonawebtop.tk - Create an account (recommended) or use the demo account (user: demo; password: demo)
I want to know other opinions about cloud computing.
Do you think it is fine to have your data online?
Would it be useful to have a social network combined with a cloud desktop?
SIGNATURE
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ebelow.com/ipad-2-stand.html