The term ‘cloud computing’ is used to describe a recent trend in the computer industry based on the use of computer applications as services delivered from huge server farms (a collection of computer servers maintained by an enterprise to accomplish server needs far beyond the capability of one machine). Thee first glimpse of cloud computing is already available with the move of e-mail from our hard disks to mail servers (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!) and the use of online word processors (Wiki, Google services). Social networking applications such as Facebook and blogs have further accelerated the trend towards cloud computing. More and more of our digital assets are moving from our hard disk to the cloud. Thee main players in cloud computing are Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook; all either already have or plan to develop big server farms.
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Diplo has produced two new animated videos in the ‘Internet Governance Lite’ series of videos. The playlist (on Diplo's YouTube channel) now...
Most of us rely heavily on cloud services. The use of Gmail, Google docs, FlickR, Dropbox, iTunes are but a very few, common examples of cloud services which allow us to store our data online.
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By moving to the cloud, we are entrusting our data to third parties. Do we stop and think about the security issues, such as,...
This paper looks at how cloud computing will surpass the Internet in adoption and usage as this technology’s users are on the other side of the digital divide. It looks at the diffusion of mobile phones and devices in developing countries and its continuous dramatic rise and at some popular mobile applications that are helping development efforts, such as m-Banking, m-Education, m-Health, m-...
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I know there are a lot of scary stories out there--you probably have a favorite one yourself (mine is the Pixar debacle where the award-winning movie Toy Story was almost lost -- http://blog.servint.net/tag/pixar/), but I always...
I’m reading two unrelated articles, both on cloud computing. The first article describes Apple’s launch of iCloud during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2011), last week. Much hype surrounded Apple’s proclaimed intent, voiced by CEO Steve Jobs: ‘We are going to move...