so what is the cloud the cloud is a colloquial term used to describe a
service that utilizes the concept of cloud computing I mean that's basically
it do you still have a reason for being here okay no I'm sorry I write it right
so we're going to focus on the public cloud or cloud services that are
available for pretty much anyone to use through the internet a couple examples
of this include Dropbox which is cloud storage and on live which is cloud
gaming but first the origin of the term cloud my theory is that it exists
because it's easier to draw a cloud on a network diagram than to draw this which
is a visual representation from Pier One of the way many nodes are connected to
each other on the internet no but seriously there are a number of reasons
but the main one is that in the same way that a normal cloud is a dense cluster
of water molecules that appears as a single object from a distance a
Computing cloud is a dense cluster of computers working together in such a way
that to a normal Observer they all appear to be one giant Computing
resource so in short that's the cloud stuff that appears to be running on your
PC your phone or any other Computing device even a basic one like a
Chromebook but is actually running over the internet on an array of computers
that are sharing Resources with each other so let's make cloud storage our
first example you start out for free with 2 gigs of storage you can access
anywhere so there's no upfront cost then when you need need more resources
dropbox's cheapest paid account gets you 100 gigs of storage you can't actually
buy a 100 gig hard drive these days let alone a 2 gig one but that's where the
shared resources come in you are renting some of a hard drive some bandwidth cost
for the data center and some of the power cost for the PC it's sitting in
and that's how the cloud works but what about a DIY solution I could buy two
Cheapo hard drives for the same as one year of that 100 Gig account plug them
into my SATA ports throw them in raid one set up an FTP server forward the
appropriate ports on my router and then I'd have 500 gigs of reliable storage I
can access anywhere that actually belongs to me and I don't have to pay
for it monthly well yes I could so cloud
storage is stupid then well no hold on maybe not first of all I had to pay all
my money up front instead of spreading it out and scaling as my needs change
and if you weren't sure what I was talking about for a moment there with
raids and ftps you're not alone most
people don't know how to do that stuff and even the ones that do often can't be
ared the convenience of having zero hassle sync folders and solid Mobile
support to quickly do things like backup photos on my phone is very appealing on
top of that with cloud services you won't be limited by the slow speeds or
bandwidth caps if applicable of your home connection and you'll get data
protection that is much more robust than raid one with copies of your files
spread across the globe so that even a natural disaster that wipes out an
entire data center wouldn't theoretically cause you to lose anything
my next example is an emerging technology cloud gaming instead of
buying a gaming PC up front with a powerful graphics card a Casual Gamer
could just get a basic plan for most of the time then increase it temporarily to
get more horsepower when a hot game comes out for example he or she wouldn't
need to worry about updating drivers or waiting for game installs even because
the applications themselves could run from the cloud this running software
that's not even installed on your PC concept is actually a third excellent
example of cloud computing by the way sounds great right well latency is going
to be a major obstacle for cloud gaming for a long time but how about other
stuff like video editing you could use this concept to sit at your laptop and
leverage processing power in a server Farm somewhere that's orders of
magnitude faster than what you have available to you if it's something that
you only use on a project by project basis it could be much more economical
than investing heavily in hardware for yourself pretty cool eh my last example
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