Cloud Computing – The Social Evolution

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Robin Berry.

Following the high-tech bubble burst at the start of this millennium, there have been very few advents in the IT industry that have caused much excitement in industry leaders, thinkers, watchers, and consumers alike. The beginning of 2011 saw a new buzz around the globe—cloud computing.

For the average individual, cloud computing doesn’t have the much marketed appeal that the iPhone has, for example. Cloud computing, in simplest terms, is a method for accessing remotely an operating system, a software application, a data bank etc. The tools you need are not dependent on your hardware, but are running on a complex system of servers and high-powered computing devices that you connect to via Internet…

Marshall McLuhan’s “The medium is the message” phrase has never rung truer than with the concept of cloud computing. Imagine turning on your computer in the morning and rather than having an apple or multicolored window greet you, the first thing you see is a login or icon to access the internet. You proceed to log into a cloud—public, private, communal—and once there, you can load your operating system, choose your applications, surf the web, and access your files. Consider the possibilities for your working environment: it would no longer be necessary for a company to have a central location where employees are chained to for eight hours daily. A business could be improved by having the best employees located around the world, able to work together, with little infrastructure expenses…

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