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Cloud Computing
INF 103: Computer Literacy
Theodore Glasser
February 23, 2014
Cloud Computing
Have you ever needed to run to work because you had an idea to add something to you PowerPoint slide, and knew you didn’t have time the next morning? Digital technology continues to be one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Every year the consumer is bombarded with new technology from a faster laptop computer, larger cellphone, and/or different tablet. One form of technology that tends to be the same and has stagnated is how business’s compute. Everyone is used to having their own desktop that is preloaded with software while all information created on your desktop is stored to the desktop’s hard drive. In the future you may never have to run to your work desktop, but just make the corrections from the comfort of your living room. Cloud computing may be the end of the traditional standard computer based programs.
Many consumers already use Cloud services but don’t realize it. The cloud in its simplest form can be found in your personal email “the cloud is a metaphor for the space on the Internet that can be used to store your data, as well as applications to manipulate it. The Gmail™ application exists online, and to use it, all you need is a connection to the Internet and a browser. Likewise, all of your email is stored in the Google databases as well, rather than on your own personal computer.” (Bowles, 2013) Gmail is an example of a cloud simplest form. A more complex form is a company that has no desktops, but terminals, that access a server that contains a virtual desktop which you perform and store all information on. With any new emerging technology there are multiple advantages and disadvantages.
Bowles stated advantages can be as simple as computer start up time, the absence of viruses and malware, the need to install software, and finally availability. From a user’s standpoint availability may be the largest...
INF 103: Computer Literacy
Theodore Glasser
February 23, 2014
Cloud Computing
Have you ever needed to run to work because you had an idea to add something to you PowerPoint slide, and knew you didn’t have time the next morning? Digital technology continues to be one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Every year the consumer is bombarded with new technology from a faster laptop computer, larger cellphone, and/or different tablet. One form of technology that tends to be the same and has stagnated is how business’s compute. Everyone is used to having their own desktop that is preloaded with software while all information created on your desktop is stored to the desktop’s hard drive. In the future you may never have to run to your work desktop, but just make the corrections from the comfort of your living room. Cloud computing may be the end of the traditional standard computer based programs.
Many consumers already use Cloud services but don’t realize it. The cloud in its simplest form can be found in your personal email “the cloud is a metaphor for the space on the Internet that can be used to store your data, as well as applications to manipulate it. The Gmail™ application exists online, and to use it, all you need is a connection to the Internet and a browser. Likewise, all of your email is stored in the Google databases as well, rather than on your own personal computer.” (Bowles, 2013) Gmail is an example of a cloud simplest form. A more complex form is a company that has no desktops, but terminals, that access a server that contains a virtual desktop which you perform and store all information on. With any new emerging technology there are multiple advantages and disadvantages.
Bowles stated advantages can be as simple as computer start up time, the absence of viruses and malware, the need to install software, and finally availability. From a user’s standpoint availability may be the largest...