Comments on: Cloud Computing Totally Failed us

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:17:52 +0000

Well that was the original vision of cloud computing; ‘processing data on the cloud’, everything to be provided like Gmail is. However now the vision seems to be synchronization across the cloud, data backup on the cloud and desktop software with web counterparts.

Some examples: Live Mail online and Live Mail Desktop, Office Live, Yahoo Mail and Zimbra, Woopra (desktop and online), Adobe AIR technology, Mozilla Prism, Live Mesh, Evernote (web version and different applications for different devices) and the list goes on.

The biggest hold-up is still bandwith, especially this side of the world… woo 1mbs…

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:50:27 +0000

Online storage as a highly-secured backup or as a mean of file sharing is one thing with which I agree, but is that cloud computing ? What I am not affiliated with, is the idea of real-time process “on the cloud” : what advantage a company or myself would meet to process a document with its data and its processor “on the cloud” when both can easily fit on my hard disk ? I see more drawbacks than advantages.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:29:42 +0000

I think I kind of agree with you Transcontinental. HDD are continually getting better and safer and I will always want a copy of all my data stored on one.

However synchronization and storage on the cloud is still something that excites me. Live Mesh 1.0 will be fantastic.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:43:22 +0000

I still don’t understand the success of cloud computing when in the meanwhile hard disks are getting more and more powerful… Also, I remain stunned in one’s ability to transmit — whatever security — private data over the seven seas as if confidence had become the leader of a well educated hi-tech philosophy.
Am I talking rubbish ?

By: darkkosmos

darkkosmos — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:25:24 +0000

-.- I totally agree, I’m sick of cloud computing and anything related to it. Everytime something happens there will be tons of post generated on tech blogs when most of their readers don’t even use that freaking service!!!

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:27:09 +0000

Gmail is hardly cloud computing. It’s email with some fancy features. I remember getting an account (required invites at that time), looking at it and thinking “so what?”.

On other hand I am not much of email person, I mostly communicate through ICQ.

On global outcry – I learned to ignore it long ago. Why outcries cover only boring and stupid things? :) Or maybe they are making things boring and stupid…

By: zgeorgem

zgeorgem — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:04:59 +0000

wait a second…
email goin down is nothing new…
if u are on an exchange server there are always outages goin on… that is not cloud computing in any way… why not complain about that?

By: Dante

Dante — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:10:32 +0000

Yeah, I got hit by that Gmail outage. Lucky I’m totally paranoid. I have my Gmail account send copies of all emails to a Yahoo account. I just logged into that Yahoo account that I haven’t logged into for over 2 months and read my emails. I do this in reverse also with my main Yahoo account :)