Servers Are So 5 Minutes Ago – The Cloud is the New Black
October 4, 2013
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Nathan Roberson.
With so much of our personal lives “on the cloud,” so to speak, it seems there is a slow shuffle toward this ethereal space in the business world. But why? Why would we trust the Google+ images cloud to be in charge of storing precious pictures of our newborns, puppies, wedding days, and first days of kindergarten but not trust them with an excel spreadsheet?
It seems the fear is based more in irrational thinking than in good business sense. In the work world, we tend to stick with what works, even years after it’s been outdated. Take a look around—is there a fax machine in your office? Exactly. There are at least ten other better ways to get information back and forth to people than a fax machine, yet they still sell, and we’re still using them. “Faxes” can now be sent via smart phone, and for phablets (phone-tablets) like the Samsung Note II, notes can be written, documents can be signed, and more, making the facsimile totally obsolete. But even those of us with a Note II in hand are still guilty of faxing the old fashioned way at least once in a while…
When it comes to big data, the cloud is what’s next, and it won’t be optional for long. 20 years ago, the thought of a single gigabyte was mind-boggling for the average person, and most computers for consumers had only about half a gigabyte of storage. Today, kids are skating around their middle schools with 32 gig jump-drives hanging from lanyards around their necks—big data on this level is literally child’s play, and the words gigabyte and even terabyte have a childlike innocence about them when juxtaposed with the petabytes, exabytes, and zettabytes now commonplace in the big data world. At any point of the day, for example, Coca-Cola is gathering, profiling, and analyzing roughly a petabyte of information in less time than it took you to read this paragraph…
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