What is "The Cloud" as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2014-05-07
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so what is the cloud the cloud is a colloquial term used to describe a
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service that utilizes the concept of cloud computing I mean that's basically
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it do you still have a reason for being here okay no I'm sorry I write it right
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so we're going to focus on the public cloud or cloud services that are
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available for pretty much anyone to use through the internet a couple examples
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of this include Dropbox which is cloud storage and on live which is cloud
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gaming but first the origin of the term cloud my theory is that it exists
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because it's easier to draw a cloud on a network diagram than to draw this which
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is a visual representation from Pier One of the way many nodes are connected to
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each other on the internet no but seriously there are a number of reasons
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but the main one is that in the same way that a normal cloud is a dense cluster
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of water molecules that appears as a single object from a distance a
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Computing cloud is a dense cluster of computers working together in such a way
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that to a normal Observer they all appear to be one giant Computing
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resource so in short that's the cloud stuff that appears to be running on your
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PC your phone or any other Computing device even a basic one like a
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Chromebook but is actually running over the internet on an array of computers
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that are sharing Resources with each other so let's make cloud storage our
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first example you start out for free with 2 gigs of storage you can access
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anywhere so there's no upfront cost then when you need need more resources
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dropbox's cheapest paid account gets you 100 gigs of storage you can't actually
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buy a 100 gig hard drive these days let alone a 2 gig one but that's where the
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shared resources come in you are renting some of a hard drive some bandwidth cost
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for the data center and some of the power cost for the PC it's sitting in
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and that's how the cloud works but what about a DIY solution I could buy two
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Cheapo hard drives for the same as one year of that 100 Gig account plug them
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into my SATA ports throw them in raid one set up an FTP server forward the
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appropriate ports on my router and then I'd have 500 gigs of reliable storage I
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can access anywhere that actually belongs to me and I don't have to pay
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for it monthly well yes I could so cloud
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storage is stupid then well no hold on maybe not first of all I had to pay all
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my money up front instead of spreading it out and scaling as my needs change
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and if you weren't sure what I was talking about for a moment there with
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raids and ftps you're not alone most
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people don't know how to do that stuff and even the ones that do often can't be
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ared the convenience of having zero hassle sync folders and solid Mobile
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support to quickly do things like backup photos on my phone is very appealing on
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top of that with cloud services you won't be limited by the slow speeds or
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bandwidth caps if applicable of your home connection and you'll get data
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protection that is much more robust than raid one with copies of your files
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spread across the globe so that even a natural disaster that wipes out an
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entire data center wouldn't theoretically cause you to lose anything
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my next example is an emerging technology cloud gaming instead of
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buying a gaming PC up front with a powerful graphics card a Casual Gamer
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could just get a basic plan for most of the time then increase it temporarily to
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get more horsepower when a hot game comes out for example he or she wouldn't
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need to worry about updating drivers or waiting for game installs even because
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the applications themselves could run from the cloud this running software
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that's not even installed on your PC concept is actually a third excellent
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example of cloud computing by the way sounds great right well latency is going
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to be a major obstacle for cloud gaming for a long time but how about other
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stuff like video editing you could use this concept to sit at your laptop and
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leverage processing power in a server Farm somewhere that's orders of
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magnitude faster than what you have available to you if it's something that
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you only use on a project by project basis it could be much more economical
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than investing heavily in hardware for yourself pretty cool eh my last example
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is both my sponsor for today as fast as possible and another example of the ease
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of use reliability low upfront cost and nearly Unlimited Performance scalability
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that comes from sharing resources in the cloud squarespace.com browser-based
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interface allows you to use their design Suite to build a great brand and
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beautiful functional website and it's all in the cloud their tools include a
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logo designer and template based website design tool that allows you to create an
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awesome blog portfolio fully functional website and more the templates look
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great on desktop or mobile browsers and because the web hosting is cloud-based
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you can scale your plan as needed to adapt to your changing needs in terms of
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storage space Power and bandwidth
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finally again because it's cloud-based you can access the tools from anywhere
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and the changes you make to your site will be live in seconds if all of that
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advantages of keeping your data to yourself versus the public Cloud things
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like the potential cost savings and improved privacy that can be achieved
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with a DIY solution like bit torrent sync or even the way you could use
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something like a wdm cloud Network hard drive to achieve some of these goals
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