Cloud Computing Ushers in New Era for Laptops and Computers
parsetable('98%', '', '[tr][td=1,1,720]The current computer buzzwords you often encounter in both print and online media is Cloud Computing
. Its because just a play of words that burrowed the cloud used as a metaphoric abstraction referring to the internet technologies in general. In other words cloud computing is really all about computing using internet based resources from networks to hardware to application.
It is a paradigm shift that demolishes the common conceptions of what a computer is. It is no longer just your PC or a server. Its not even just a mix of servers and networks. Rather, it is a mix of everything including online services, application hosting, managed resources, and everything related to the internet cloud.
To illustrate, you can start your computer in New York, access the internet through your browser and work on your spreadsheet from an excel file hosted in a server in China. As well as downloading a file, video or music from a server in Brazil, you can upload your completed files to your office server in England, not on your laptop storage.
You can watch a movie on the side from streaming video from a Hollywood Netflix server while chatting with a social networking site member in South Africa. In short, cloud computing is the vehicle for a truly global business and social interaction that knows no racial, national or geopolitical boundaries. Its definitely changing the way we work on our laptops and computers.
No need for sophisticated Computer Resources
Your laptop two years back can be used again. All you need is a good broadband connectivity and a good browser. In this regard, you have less featured netbooks coming out that have half the processing power of laptops and desktop computers but can do the job of letting your browse and interact online. Thats because even your application suites that typically require precious hard disk space reside in and can be accessed from a server somewhere on the internet cloud. You download a file or save what youve done not on your hard disk but on some shared storage service provider like Rapidshare in a server somewhere in the internet cloud.
Benefits of Cloud Computing
The borderless internet promised years ago is finally on us. Cloud computing or just Internet computing makes the planet just one small community a global village that started at the end of the 20th century in the business world with the realities of a borderless global business economy. Now, the concept goes micro with computing on the personal level reaching global dimensions as well.
- Cloud Computing serves the interest of global business enabling people not only to engage in commerce with the entire world as its markets, but also to spread its resources beyond the borders of corporate servers and personal computers and laptops.
- With cloud computing spreading your IT resources around the planet, you get to pay only what is needed. There are no upfront IT expenditures that once plagued corporate MIS and IT management departments. IT becomes a subscription based operating cost item, not a capital intensive one. Because of subscription based costing, acquiring a laptop or desktop computer would be like getting cellphone handsets free of charge on a 24-month contract with a network provider. You can get laptops and computers from internet service providers.
- Thered be no need to upgrade your computing hardware. Cloud computing is essentially a thin-client computing model so even older laptops and PCs can work on it. GP
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