I’m a cloud computing fanatic. Web 2.0 may just be a buzz word, but the growing number of ways we can connect over the digital airways is increasing by the day. Intertwined and interconnected, our blogs, social media, news sites, and so on, all breathe the same air and share the same massive cluster of server space. As a blogger in this opportunistic information age we must harness the right tools to communicate with fellow cloud cadets and utilize every opportunity allowed. The telephone used to be the standard, then came email. Now we have available to us a vast number of tools to tap on the shoulders of our fellow bloggers. Read More > Google Chat: A Bloggers Best Friend
Can someone please explain exactly what cloud computing is? I'm getting old and it is hard for me to keep up with you kids and your crazy talk.
Cloud is becoming an overused term, in the way web 2.0 has been. At the core of cloud is the concept of an abstracted computing platform. The google platform, and Amazon EC2 are probably the most common examples of "cloud" now. IBM and Sun are both big into the cloud scene. Essentially, the idea is to commoditize server computing power. Cloud operators will have big datacenter farms that work as a cloud. Consumers can run their applications on the cloud (web sites, applications, game backends, etc), without having to buy, manage, understand or worry about the delivery platform. A relevant way to think about cloud for many people here is web hosting. Consider the concept of not buying a dedicated vs shared server. Hosting becomes completely shared (but that doesn't matter), and you simply defined how much space you needed and how fast you wanted the applications to respond. Large organizations will likely end up with "private clouds", in cases where the security/confidentiality of the applications and data doesn't lend itself to running on a public cloud.