I think it's all in keeping up with marketable products. M/S themselves have stated that thier OP is too burdensome for mobile devices. To break it down into subfunctions that can be delivered on demand, may give them opportunity to provide a usefull product. The huge popularity of downloadable apps onto your mobile devices, along with the trend to video one's daily lives, makes remote servers a must. It's really not that much different than me leasing server space to run a large database. Serving an html interface to remote users. Thin clients found huge popularity with internal 'cloud' configurations.

 

One app that is definitely cloud based, but rarely referred to that way, is web based email. Given that offline readers like outlook is so dern easy to hack (and is) it is a practical solution. As is people still manage to swap viruses even though it isn't as easy.

I still use hotmail, but I am not fond what they keep doing with it. They want to make it a firm part of the cloud, IM, social media, and more. No thanks. If it gets bad enough I do have other email addresses waiting.

 

One app that is definitely cloud based, but rarely referred to that way, is web based email. Given that offline readers like outlook is so dern easy to hack (and is) it is a practical solution. As is people still manage to swap viruses even though it isn't as easy.

I still use hotmail, but I am not fond what they keep doing with it. They want to make it a firm part of the cloud, IM, social media, and more. No thanks. If it gets bad enough I do have other email addresses waiting.

I've got about 4 waiting
look into some cheap server space, $12/yr, and you get your own email domain.
How does Bill_Marsden@BillIsAwesome.com sound

 

No thanks. I like to be under the radar, personally. Free is also good, I will put up with a certain amount of advertising for a free product.

 

No thanks. I like to be under the radar, personally. Free is also good, I will put up with a certain amount of advertising for a free product.

I will put up with a certain amount of pay for add free

 

I have a couple web based email accounts. They are handy to give to the "known" spammers that want your email address. I check mine every now and then to clean out the "junk" email.

 

last night, one of our major ISP had an explosion and fire in thier main network center. Most major businesses in the downtown core have lost thier services, including several major banks. We'll see how deep this screw up runs over the next few days.

 

Somehow I never thought of computers as explosive.

 

I cannot access their customer center now... all due to a fire in a transformer

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/dangers-cloud-computing was written 2 years ago. I don't think any of the issues have been addressed...

 

I cannot access their customer center now... all due to a fire in a transformer

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/dangers-cloud-computing was written 2 years ago. I don't think any of the issues have been addressed...

911 service lost for about 30k customers, two hospitals lost interconnections, some RCMP services cut, Health Services disrupted, at least one radio station silenced, Provincial registries down, it's a mess.

 

Somehow I never thought of computers as explosive.

Don't you ever play videogames???
If you melee them enough, they explode


In all seriousness though, it's kinda sobering to think that those systems aren't redundant

 

911 service lost for about 30k customers, two hospitals lost interconnections, some RCMP services cut, Health Services disrupted, at least one radio station silenced, Provincial registries down, it's a mess.

Scary. That's a single point failure. No redundancy. And we literally stake our lives on it. Is there a contingency plan for something like this? Imagine if a disgruntled individual were able to blow up all, or even just some, of the ISPs. It could cause a great deal of trouble.

 

Cloud storage is pretty handy for mobile devices w/ limited storage or in the case of some browsers,boosting performance.

Myself,I use my free cloud storage for nothing but internet cat pictures

 

911 service lost for about 30k customers, two hospitals lost interconnections, some RCMP services cut, Health Services disrupted, at least one radio station silenced, Provincial registries down, it's a mess.

Yes, the scary part is the health services. In my biomed program the network management was discussed a lot all devices are becoming networked, wireless, modular, you name it. However, there are no standards in place to ensure data integrity or system connectivity. Within the hospital departments (IT and biomed) are fighting over who is responsible for network and data management of medical - there are no standards in terms of security. Patient data management is being outsourced to private companies... bet it winds up in the cloud. This is only the beginning. My advise, try not to get sick, one wrong drug library update and things get interesting.

 

No joke,they are paying private doctors up $50,000.00 to sign up for electronic

billing. The more parts of the insurance plan that they can get head start on

The harder for people to make changes.If they get the medical records in the

cloud,they are in control of your life. If some one can cross the border and know

a U.S. zip code,I want you try something....google the hill burton act and enter

the zip code. Let me know if you find it. Will explain.