Cloud the future.

People still have hard drives in their computers also with cloud computing. Cloud computing is not a thin client.

Yes cloud computing is here to stay, yes its the future. One day almost everything (obviously not everything, of course there will be a couple of exceptions) will be in a cloud. Its fantastic! Legacy computing is so yesterday.
 
I believe that cloud computing is beneficial for many industries and products, but for others they have a long way to go before everyone is using them (i.e. gaming).

My problem with the cloud is that once the servers go offline, everything you have is lost. No hard copy backup or physical copy of what you have.
 
Macethy said:
I believe that cloud computing is beneficial for many industries and products, but for others they have a long way to go before everyone is using them (i.e. gaming).
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Go play some quakelive.com then :D A very healthy and active fps cloud game.

My problem with the cloud is that once the servers go offline, everything you have is lost. No hard copy backup or physical copy of what you have.
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Thats like saying your problem with legacy computing is that if your PC breaks (which happens a lot more often than a cloud breaking)... then you lose all your data.

Both are stupid statements. Yours and mine, because like anything, a reasonable human would back up their data to more than one location.
 
True, lets say one used Google Drive to backup your documents (not media). Every pc you use it on, will have a copy of the documents, as well as the cloud. So I use this at work, at home, and on both work and home laptops. That leaves me with 5 copies of each document!

So cloud goes down...meh I still have 4 copies left :P

It does however mean, you should think about encrypting the very important documents at the very least.
 
Tinuva said:
True, lets say one used Google Drive to backup your documents (not media). Every pc you use it on, will have a copy of the documents, as well as the cloud. So I use this at work, at home, and on both work and home laptops. That leaves me with 5 copies of each document!

So cloud goes down...meh I still have 4 copies left :P

It does however mean, you should think about encrypting the very important documents at the very least.
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Normal PC`s are (generally way) more insecure than clouds so you should be doing this already.
 
Macethy said:
My problem with the cloud is that once the servers go offline, everything you have is lost. No hard copy backup or physical copy of what you have.
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Let's take Google's Cloud as an example...Chances are more likely that your ISP might be down preventing you from accessing your cloud documents etc. rather than their servers going offline...luckily there are fail-over methods. :)
 
You know that the cloud servers can crash and just think what happen to all your backups that you ha and all of you info or some hacker hacks in to the servers and can access your data and people say it is not possible just like it was not possible for someone to hack in to the banks mainframe or not possible for the BB serveses to go down and leve people sad.
 
A properly set up and run cloud environment will have a lot of redundancy and failover built into them. So should never not be available. Network connectivity to that cloud is less redundant but then there are other options. So if your ADSL is down maybe you can use 3G to get to it.
In South Africa until recently the biggest potential failure was the number of undersea cable coming into the country but now this is less of a point of failure with the additional cable now on-stream.
I make use of Google Docs for sharing information with people around the world and it works very well.
I would certainly start to use it and if you have sensitive documents then do put a password on them or encrypt them
I would not though store the list of passwords on the cloud though. Just in case

Regards

Tim
 
magicMaster said:
You know that the cloud servers can crash and just think what happen to all your backups that you ha and all of you info or some hacker hacks in to the servers and can access your data and people say it is not possible just like it was not possible for someone to hack in to the banks mainframe or not possible for the BB serveses to go down and leve people sad.
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Um, how is anything you said different from normal legacy computing? Also, who ever said no one could hack a bank? Ive never in my life see anyone call anything unhackable. Perhaps you heard that from one of your skateboarder friends or whoever else you turn to for your technical advice.

Yes we know that stuff crashes, but with the cloud you get less crashes.
Yes we know stuff can be hacked through insecure users, but with a system like Google its a lot more secure than legacy systems

Since I have started using the cloud 0 hacks, 100% availability.
 
I will give that it is safe and with google it is most secure. But see my point here, it will someday in the future experience some problem and then your data files get lost. it is possible. And there are no backup servers, that i can say as much as. I agree it is the future but I will still not use it. And cloud gaming is possible in SA but as you know with our fun internet in SA it is not going to be a reality or true.
 
magicMaster said:
I will give that it is safe and with google it is most secure. But see my point here, it will someday in the future experience some problem and then your data files get lost. it is possible. And there are no backup servers, that i can say as much as. I agree it is the future but I will still not use it.
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Thats like those people still on Windows 95 because they dont understand Windows 7 :D If you have a Gmail account or a Facebook account you are already using a cloud. Too late! :D The cloud is coming whether you like it or not.

And cloud gaming is possible in SA but as you know with our fun internet in SA it is not going to be a reality or true.
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QuakeLive works fine. Have you not tried it? They have SA servers.
 
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Whether Facebook *IS* a cloud, that's a judgement call. The company basically runs a single, large Internet application. Users interact with that application through the Facebook UI, implemented on a number of devices (web, mobile, etc.). At best, you could say that Facebook is a SaaS-based social networking application, but then the question is what makes something a SaaS application? Is Google a SaaS application for Internet search? Is Mapquest a SaaS application for mapping and directions? Is Yahoo Finance a SaaS application for financial news? Is BarnsAndNoble.com a SaaS application for buying books? (Note that I specifically avoided Amazon.com because given Amazon's generic storefront capabilities for multiple other retailers, one could realistically argue that Amazon has become a SaaS application for ecommerce storefronts.)
 
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