Cloud Computing - What We Need to Know
From an address by Dilip Mohapatra (Solutions Architect, Nexright)
Dilip gave us a lot – some would say too much! - to think about in telling us about Cloud Computing.
At the end, I asked “When will Bigpond start encouraging me (and all their ordinary one-person customers) to use Cloud Computing?” And the answer was, effectively, “Cloud Computing isn’t on the horizon for ordinary single users.” So most of us don’t have to worry about it at all.
Earlier in Dilip's presentation, I learned that if, say, a company (let’s call it Happy Hawthorn - HH) uses Cloud Computing, then it would not have to buy any software like Word or Excel because it would pay per hour of usage of these programs.
So, in principle, in a future glorious world in which Cloud Computing is dominant, HH would buy simpler computers, with less storage capacity, because the computers would not have to store any programs, or any documents, or any emails: All the programs and all the documents, would be stored on the Cloud Computer server‘in the sky’.
So the HH computers would be talking to the Cloud Computer, and paying for the extent of program usage, and for the extent of document storage.
And, yes, you guessed it: the HH computers would have this interchange via the internet.
So, as you guessed, if the internet connection breaks down, or the Cloud Computing Company goes broke, then (it seems to me) HH will be totally ***ed!
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