The Cloud

Tartanyak

The processing isn't really the problem. It's the amount of data you have to transfer.

Take google's location services for example - a good cloud service. From a device you collate GPS, radio tower, net address and anything else that could help figure out where you are. That compresses down to quite a small amount of data. Send that off to the magic cloudy wonder. Cloudy McCloud (Clan McCloud) then used its big pile of processors, big fat internet pipes and huge amounts of data (that all needs to be updated regularly) to figure out where you are and send back a little long/lat info. Very little data transfer between client and server.

montevideoguy

Surely the answer for business (in terms of doing more heavy stuff) was always going to be remote desktopping? You already have some companies doing this already with people having thin clients that connect to the meat and potatoes server in work (citrix if I mind right?).

For home users, there is more point to it but only if you're in a place that supports a decent speed (i.e. not Uruguay). Also, when you consider the costs of buying physical storage devices, I don't really see the point in taking the risk of storing it elsewhere

Daz555

Cloud storage is a handy backup for many people. It also adds the offsite element - so many people have their external USB drive full of backups sat in the same room as their PC. To be honest if the data is important the backup should not be in your house.

I have my backup NAS located in my garage - connected via powerline adaptor.

t0pc4t

I keep meaning to get a NAS but I'm just too damn lazy.

chedabob

Tom Howard wrote:

chedabob wrote:

"The Cloud" is some wifi crap that O2 do. It's like BT Openzone, but cack.

More research needed on your part my friend...

http://www.thecloud.net/

O2 offer it if you buy their iPhone Data Bundle.

tom_howard

fair enough, but when people refer to the cloud, this is what they mean 99% of the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Anonymous

Tom Howard, I think that's just geeks. Most poeple think of this...

Anonymous

How te hell did that double-post? :?

tom_howard

:oops: touche...

montevideoguy

Needs more cloud

tom_howard

some people arent fans of cloud...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abFJuqp867g

thanks to Nicklouse for the link

mpatts

t0pc4t said:

latest IT fad isn't it, good for some stuff, we keep our spreadsheets on google docs as we can access them from multiple locations and it's convenient


for companies, seems to me that relatively low processing load stuff works fine in the cloud but if you're doing heavier weight stuff like data integration it's better to stay on premise.

What you need is a hybrid cloud strategy.

me-109

Connor McCloud? Duncan McCloud? Someone already used my Clan McCloud line I thought of halfway through page 1. VLAN McCloud?

What flavour of cloud are we talking - public, private, hybrid, co-lo (so not 'your data on someone else's server)?

Doing what? SaaS, PaaS, IaaS? Whateveryouwant-as-a-service?

I've never known an organisation actually quantify their capex or opex savings by a cloud migration. Especially if you factor in the redundancy of the techies no longer required (or the fact you need to retain them for legacy stuff) plus hiring or retraining to Contract Managers for the outsourced elements, plus the additional monitoring that then needs implementing....

Stevo_666

Blimey, 9 year old thread resurrection...