A Clearer View of How to Exploit Cloud Computing
Major: Computer Engineer

Reference: Alistair, R. (2011, Jan. 27). A Clearer View of How to Exploit Cloud Computing. Retrieved 05March 2011 from Engineerlive.Com:
http://www.engineerlive.com/Design-Engineer/Computer_Systems_Software/A_clearer_view_of_how_to_exploit_cloud_computing/23336/

Summary:

According to this article, as information technology companies show new ways to offer infrastructure to businesses, the term ‘cloud computing’ is becoming more common. The Internet is an accessible network of servers for data and information. However, the author shows that by 2012, “one-fifth of all companies will no longer own their IT”. The information business will increase its recognised IT by 60 percent. Any network is usually a connection between two or more computers. Cloud computing is a single server providing multiple services. “There are many virtual private servers on single physical servers at an internet service provider” Also, the article show that there are three types of cloud that connect between services and user. Infrastructure clouds referred, to as IaaS, they are where hardware resources or physical resources are. The data and storage clouds provide infrastructure on each application. Data and storage cloudsare short on this example, ” Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)”. It is let you read, write and delete files from 1byte to 5terabyte each.Compute Cloudshave environments that include processing power. For example; Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computer capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Also, the author claim that software cloudsare single application made available as a service. In sum, cloud computing comes with problems but the newer technology is not without risk.


Reaction:
This article is inspiring and gives very important information that I will add to my computer dictionary. First, the number of objects you can store is unlimited because the numbers of Bytes equal 5 terabyte ×10244. It is a huge. Second, cloud computing describes computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not physical materials. The users can not see or work on it. That boils down to the fact: the cloud computing is working in background of the computers.