By Cloud Computing SpunjePublished: September 24, 2009Posted in: Amazon, Business Intelligence, Cloud Solutions, G-Cloud, Google, Microsoft, Opinions & ExplanationsTags: 
The first is that it works as an insurance policy. My house might burn down, my computers all get stolen, my hard disks fail simultaneously, and still I will not have lost any of the data I care most about because quietly every night Jungle Disk looks to see what’s new and sends it off to one of Amazon’s servers – now just over 65Gb. I don’t know where, and I don’t care: I am just confident that they are better able to look after data than I am.
The second is that it acts as a universal access service. If my applications and data are in the cloud, I can reach them anywhere and so, if I choose to let you, can you. For me, this blog is at least as much one of those as it is a communication device: it’s a way of being able to find the things I half remember finding interesting long enough ago to have forgotten the other half. It went public somewhat later when I needed the help of google, which is another feature of the cloud – tools and people can interact to get things done in ways which would be more difficult or impossible in less connected ways. As Ars Techica recently put it:
http://publicstrategist.com/2009/09/the-gathering-clouds-with-aspect-dark/
There are two things I understand about cloud computing.
The first is that it works as an insurance policy. My house might burn down, my computers all get stolen, my hard disks fail simultaneously, and still I will not have lost any of the data I care most about because quietly every night Jungle Disk looks to see what’s new and sends it off to one of Amazon’s servers – now just over 65Gb. I don’t know where, and I don’t care: I am just confident that they are better able to look after data than I am.
The second is that it acts as a universal access service. If my applications and data are in the cloud, I can reach them anywhere and so, if I choose to let you, can you. For me, this blog is at least as much one of those as it is a communication device: it’s a way of being able to find the things I half remember finding interesting long enough ago to have forgotten the other half. It went public somewhat later when I needed the help of google, which is another feature of the cloud – tools and people can interact to get things done in ways which would be more difficult or impossible in less connected ways. As Ars Techica recently put it:
http://publicstrategist.com/2009/09/the-gathering-clouds-with-aspect-dark/
There are two things I understand about cloud computing.
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