Cloud computing: A bird’s eye view
December 21, 2012
Grazed from Globe and Mail. Author: Jody White.
Companies set to profit from the growth of cloud computing. While the idea of access to software and services delivered via an online network has been around since the 1960s, it wasn’t until the launch of Salesforce.com in the late ninties that tech companies began to provide useful products via the cloud.
More recently, we have seen tremendous growth in cloud computing offerings – which allow people and organizations to store digital data offsite – from Internet giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook. This has created a market for large-scale storage services to handle the vast amount of documents, social media posts and shared photos that are uploaded to the cloud millions of times per day…
As illustrated in a recent Report on Business article, Canada, along with other northern countries, has become a favoured location for a growing number of such data centres due to our readily available supply of cold air – at least compared to Silicon Valley – a key component in cooling their power-hungry server infrastructure…
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