IT as a Service In our previous post we have emphasized that the cloud, by definition, offers minimal management or provider support to deliver the information technology infrastructure to the user. That means, the user will not undertake the lengthy process of obtaining an IT service nor she will bother with the complexities of it. […]
The formal definition is, well “formal” and we’re inclined to think it like a definition that has been made specifically to confuse rather than explain, but we will start with it and further explain everything one by one. Let’s see how American National Institute of Standards and Technology answers “what is the cloud” question. Here […]
Since the era of the computer came into full effect in the mid to late 20th century, data is often considered to be one of the most important aspects of running any type of company. Because sensitive data is so valuable to all organizations in the current global marketplace, it has become a necessity from […]
Cloud computing is changing the way we do business, and forcing some consumer online storage services to rethink their long term pricing strategies, as the proliferation of cheap and powerful computing resources complicates their growth. Once viable pricing structures have been thrown off track by a combination of users’ increasing storage demands and the greater […]
Fun fact: In 2010, companies spent $21.5 billion on cloud computing services. Experts estimate that by 2015 the total cost of all businesses using the cloud will be around $72.9 billion. The cloud — this new technology that is heavily used by mammoth corporations like Google, Skype, and Amazon — is here to stay. But […]
An ominous headline quietly passed through the electronic ether recently. Carnegie Mellon University published a paper entitled “Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality (PDF).” The paper details the results of a study they performed centering on their facial recognition technology software PittPatt, also developed at CMU. This study wasn’t designed to […]
The more that one looks into and considers what cloud computing is, the more it takes on an eerie quality. As integrated into our lives and even commonplace as the internet has become, it shouldn’t take too much of a childlike sense of wonder to step back and realize how amazing it is that it […]
We live in a day and age where technology is advancing so fast that just ten years ago we could not have foreseen the technological advances that we enjoy today. Certainly we have seen plenty of retina scanning and fingerprint scanners in the movies and in science fiction books. Now, however, we see fingerprint security on […]
We’ve focused a lot in this column about how popular cloud hosting is becoming. We haven’t yet talked much about where you might want to go if you are interested in a good cloud host. It’s about time we attended to this oversight. Below are some of the best cloud-based hosts that we were able […]
Do you know what’s one wonderful thing about history? At any moment in time society is caught up in countless evolving trends that will be fascinating some day to the historian. While you’re living in them, though, they can be difficult to see. This is not a bad thing. It’s by all of us “enjoying […]
Cloud technology is evolving so quickly that it’s near impossible to keep up with all of its developments. We’re not even going to try ourselves. Let’s instead do a brief news summary of some of the biggest recent advances in this field. China flies further into the cloud Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced this week that they […]
If you haven’t heard about cloud computing yet, God bless you: We haven’t a clue how you missed out on the barrage of hip new trends, but we sure are proud of you! However, no matter how secluded your rock may be, you’ll have to come out into the open sooner or later, and cloud […]
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