Cloud computing: Solving the problems of security and storage

October 1, 2012 Off By David
Object Storage
Grazed from Police One.  Author: Doug Wyllie.

The vast majority of people would rather keep their money in a bank, rather than hiding it under the mattress. Most would rather have their electricity supplied by the power company, as opposed to a gas-powered generator in the back yard. And pretty much everyone wants to have programs automatically appear on their television, not trudging someplace to get a DVD of every single thing they watch. 

If you’re a money-under-the-mattress, generator-out-back, run-to-the-video-store type of person then perhaps cloud computing isn’t for you.

But if you agree that the massive FDIC-insured vault at the bank is more secure than your Posturepedic, and that the power company is more likely to keep the lights on than the little Honda in the yard, and that a trip to Blockbuster looks rather lackluster, then read on my friends…


I’m about to take you into “the cloud…”

What is the Cloud?
A decade ago, we didn’t say “the cloud” — the term back then was Software as a Service, also known as SaaS. I kind of wish we still called it that, because at its most fundamental essence, that’s precisely what cloud computing is: software applications delivered as a service via a network (that network almost universally being the Internet these days).

To a certain extent, you’re using “the cloud” right now. Any photo you’ve seen on PoliceOne today was delivered to you by a SaaS provider with whom we’ve partnered.

Further, there’s about a 99.999 (remember that number) percent chance that you’re reading this column on a computer that’s connected to the Internet (there’s about a 0.001 percent chance that someone printed out and handed it to you, but THEY got it from a computer that’s connected to the Internet)…

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