Essay #1
Abdullah
Ahmed Al Marar
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Cloud Computing
Introduction
Imagine using your laptop anywhere in the world where internet
connection is available and be able to access your important files and
software? For many it seems like a dream since it would greatly help in many
fields may it be business, designing software and many other industries. That
is Cloud Computing in a nutshell It’s a method of using the internet to access servers
that has the information or software that is installed in it so you won’t have
to install a certain software on your own computer, it greatly helps with
memory capacity, processing and bandwidth.
History/Past
In the beginning of the introduction of computers you would need
extremely big spaces to store the hardware and storage system, but there were
another concept of doing things. The earliest concept of cloud computing was in
the 1960’s by John McCarthy who said that "computation may someday be
organized as a public utility"( Wikipedia, 2012). The name cloud came from
an old representation of internet or communication as a cloud drawing, the
first uses were financial transactions and census data. One of the biggest
companies like Amazon helped on developing Cloud Computing to be used in their
data centers since it made it more efficient and reduced cost. Google and Yahoo
are also users of cloud computing; an easy way to explain one of their uses of
cloud computing is emails you don’t have to as a user to install software or
buy a hardware specially to access the email and retrieve the information you
need.
Present
Cloud computing has become widely accepted in the computer world
today since it has many advantages, large companies and small alike use it for
storing their data and make the flow of work easier. The first benefit is
reduced costs since you wouldn’t have to buy any hardware, software or pay for
network management you just pay for what you use as a service. Since it can be
accessed remotely, if an employee has to add or update something he can do it
anywhere with an internet connection, if you need to expand your cloud capacity
it is extremely easy and at a lower cost since you wouldn’t have to buy extra
hardware or expensive software licenses it works on month to month basis. Cloud
computing apps allows you to select what your business exactly needs you
wouldn’t have to have extra information or data that you don’t need.
Generally Cloud Computing has three sections “Applications”,
“Storage and “Connectivity” Each with their own use, usually the type of
business you have would help you make the decision of which to choose.
Future
The rate of people, companies and Governments is increasing in
using cloud computing, but most of them just use it for storage, "But when
it comes to federal records, agencies have a job that is more than just
preserving them. The records they preserve have to be organized, follow
disposition schedules [kept, transferred or deleted according to set standards]
and they have to be accessible" (What is the cloud?,2012). This is the
direction Cloud Computing heading to. Since the interest is high development of
the uses, speed, storage and reduced cost is also increasing.
Conclusion
Although the concept of Cloud Computing is old, it’s still
considered a young system that is growing, we are seeing it being implemented
in smart phones like the IPhone you can store documents and pictures which can
be transferred to any of your Apple products, Microsoft also offers it to your
personal computer which indicates that in the future we won’t spend much on
extra hard disks space since your important files can be with us everywhere. (608 Words)
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