Actually, Cloud computing features, and security might be great, but
in the final analysis, the reason business will or will not move
toward cloud computing is cost. If the numbers add up they will do
it, and if they don't they won't. This is particularly true in the
current economy. Nobody hands the funds to experiment right now, but
if there is a proven financial advantage then you will see a
migration to cloud computing.
At 10:35 AM 7/8/2009, you wrote:
It's actually even better for business than it is for home users.
Salesforece.com perfect example of that. Have your whole CRM there
for secure access anywhere, your data is safe, reports are better,
advantages go on. Same with things like hosted Email Security which
the company I work for does let the spam filtering happen in the
cloud and save 80% of the bandwidth you use on email by having that
80% of your email which is spam removed before it gets to your pipe.
Also cloud computing is awesome for scaling and growing as can be
seen by amazon web services which are great cloud based services
that are allowing a lot of business to run entirely on amazon
services. If you're a corporation and you can scale from 1 virtual
server to 2000 in 5 minutes you have advantages in business.
Thanks,
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Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM)
Sr. Security Researcher
Websense Security Labs
http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com
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Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Google OS
At 01:51 PM 08/07/2009, Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
>Gotta disagree with both you guys on that one. Cloud computing
>definitely has major advantages over local for various things. Not
>all things but for example storage. I rather have a google doc
>hosted by google that will never get lost to a harddrive crash than
>a locally stored doc. I can also see big promise in things like
>http://www.onlive.com/ for gaming. Cloud can't replace everything
>but it can replace a few things really well. I personally wouldn't
>mind having a lightweight computer that boots off a flash image in 2
>seconds and connects to the web for accessing my files and basic
>functionality. Something I never have to worry about for
>maintenance. That would be the ultimate web surfing platform. Give
>one of those computers to your family and never have to worry about
>fixing it ever!
For the vast majority of people, a cloud based PC makes sense - they
are only surfing and emailing anyway, so if their internet connection
is down, they are dead in the water anyway. But I'm thinking more
for business applications.
T
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