4.20 - Google Presentation

Cloud Computing Notes:

Google pretty much the poster child of cloud computing.

Cloud runs upon whether or not it can be trusted, and the decisions are very split.

Cloud computing functions by removing data off an important computer and onto the "cloud" which is managed by many other systems.

"Cloud computing typically outshines the company's internal abilities to store information."

"The ingredients are the same, but the receipe is different."

"The cloud will not be trusted with all aspects of computing."

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Started in 2005 with benefits mainly focused on cost savings vs. features and functions. In 07, speed and innovations became the larger concerns vs customization, reliablitity, integration. Now, tectonic shifts where it's changing the "game" vs trust.

Cloud computing is a hosted applications and platforms built on shared infrastructure delivered via a web browser.

Google has taken the role of becoming the poster child for supporting cloud computing. It allows others to post much of their information upon a google server where it can be stored. Google's specialization is now focusing upon Google applications almost all of which function by working off the cloud, take for instance the Android phones (such as the Motorola Droid) which runs almost entirely off google applications many of which are now synchronizing with many other service providing web sites such as Facebook or Twitter.

The debate for the effectiveness of the cloud still rages and will continue to rage on until a general consensus can be reached amongst all users, which currently seems to be a fifty fifty debate.

But one thing (according to Google and many other experts) the cloud computing is here to stay and it will continue to evolve.

Eric Summers