{"id":186,"date":"2010-03-09T06:39:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T06:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/2010\/03\/09\/cloud-computing-the-computer-is-out-the-window\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T23:26:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:26:59","slug":"cloud-computing-the-computer-is-out-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-the-computer-is-out-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: The Computer is out the Window!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4144 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cloud-computing-2.png\" alt=\"cloud-computing\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cloud-computing-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cloud-computing-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Debates have been heating up about Cloud Computing (CC). Biggest challenge is security and bigger bigger challenge is \u2018control\u2019 of a company\u2019s tech assets. The only limitation so far has been internet bandwidth, reason why it took CC a while to become mainstream. Futurists such as Nicolas Negroponte saw it coming a while back and evangelized about it repeatedly in his book \u2018being digital\u2019 (a masterpiece). Entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen saw the opportunities early and started Loud Cloud back in 1999 (now Opsware) and Amazon today generates millions in revenue because of Amazon Web Services (Amazon launched its Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) for companies to use back 2006: yes, commercially). What really triggered CC is none other than Web 2.0: all them browser-based enterprise applications! In Summary: we\u2019ve all contributed to Cloud Computing, without realizing it. You\u2019ve been using Cloud Computing.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Computing is fantastic for emerging economies and their speed in adopting \u2018affordable\u2019 new technology. Look what\u2019s happening in Africa, where mobile internet and new telecom infrastructures are making it possible to leap into internet adoption. So why a computer in the first place. Computers are becoming more of a luxury item vs. a need?<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: Cloud Computing is not a trend, but a major shift in how we \u2019smartly\u2019 manage technology. For those who are still in denial and resisting change, they\u2019re already lagging and need to catch up fast, cuz that computer is out of the Window!<\/p>\n<p>Great reference here on the history of CC and how far it dates back (60\u2019s) thanks to Computer Weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yj7rln3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yj7rln3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debates have been heating up about Cloud Computing (CC). Biggest challenge is security and bigger bigger challenge is \u2018control\u2019 of a company\u2019s tech assets. The only limitation so far has&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3468,531,3388,3473,646,3470,3474,3472,3475,3393,3458,3469,3392,3471,1528,3457,560],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cc","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-adoption","tag-cloud-adoption-challenges","tag-cloud-computing","tag-cloud-computing-adoption","tag-cloud-computing-challenges","tag-cloud-computing-future","tag-cloud-computing-limitations","tag-cloud-computing-services","tag-cloud-computing-solution","tag-cloud-computing-trend","tag-cloud-technology","tag-cloud-technology-adoption","tag-computing","tag-sky-computing","tag-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}