Shifting shape of the cloud benefits users
May 11, 2014
Grazed from BDLive. Author: Arthur Goldstuck.
NEXT year it will be 50 years since the Rolling Stones told the world: Hey, you, get off of my cloud. That protest against society being overly ordered would not be out of place today, except it would refer to cloud computing and the privacy challenge it poses to personal data.
The bad news is that we cannot escape the cloud — any time we connect to the internet, make a credit card transaction or use our phones, we are adding to the vast volume of activity-based information being collected and collated somewhere. The concept is generally referred to as “big data”, a buzz phrase that really means we have more data floating about than we had ever imagined possible…
The good news is that the cloud is not a single, pervasive entity, but rather a massive range of services being delivered from data centres dotted around the world. The better news is that cloud technology is evolving so fast that its precise shape will soon be decided by the business or even the individual using it…
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