Category: Week2

Cloud Sports...

by on July 13, 2018 11:41 am
Data storage has long been an insatiable thirst for consumers and commercial enterprises alike. From a storage perspective, businesses and individuals wish to archive everything they possibly can. Rooms that were once filled with filing cabinets transformed into rooms full of hard drives. For the individual, the worn and torn scrapbook turned into the portable… Read more Cloud Sports...

Hardware Startups too Hard? Lack of Hardware Innovation & Its Limitations

by on July 13, 2018 11:37 am
I have heard it mentioned a few times in class that software is becoming the dominant player in a market that used to be controlled by hardware.  It makes sense, as we see the development of cloud computing, virtualization, & shared resources utilizing complex software on just a few machines.  One of the key notes… Read more Hardware Startups too Hard? Lack of Hardware Innovation & Its Limitations

Potential Future of Cloud Security

by on July 13, 2018 11:25 am
Presence of Cloud Security The application of cloud computing is ubiquitous since 2008 and the industry has experienced a fast growth with exceeding performance.  The future of cloud will put emphasis on flexibility of solutions where customers could use hybrid IT solution that balances scalability and flexibility of cloud as well as the security of… Read more Potential Future of Cloud Security

Uploaded to the Cloud: The future may already be here

by on July 13, 2018 11:24 am
Black Mirror episodes are enthralling for many reasons. One of those reasons is the manner in which they portray leading trends in technology, and the way they give us a glimpse of how things can go awfully wrong if mismanaged.   One of the premises they rely fairly heavily on is the concept of uploading… Read more Uploaded to the Cloud: The future may already be here

Cloud Computing

by on July 13, 2018 11:20 am
One issue that comes into mind for cloud computing is the future development of cloud computing and where innovation and advancements in technology will take it. The fact that it was none of the companies that “owned” the network that pioneered in cloud computing is remarkable. The network operators (e.g. AT&T, Comcast, Verizon in the… Read more Cloud Computing

Learning Facebook's Lesson the Easy Way

by on July 13, 2018 11:03 am
In the spring of 2018 Facebook found itself consumed with a press nightmare. Large international fines, inquiry hearings, and widespread boycotts all spun into a hellish cocktail of public dissent. All of this turmoil spurred from the data impropriety allegations against Cambridge Analytica, as brought forth by co-founder Christopher Wylie. Once the investigations following Wylie’s… Read more Learning Facebook's Lesson the Easy Way

Core Cloud to Edge Cloud: It will take Time

by on July 13, 2018 10:48 am
Cloud/centralized computing (CC) has had a profound impact in our lives whatever your standpoint is. For the end user, it has allowed a whole new breed of digital applications to be provided and tons of data to be accessed in a global, cheap, and quasi-immediate fashion. For business and enterprises, CC has enabled the implementation… Read more Core Cloud to Edge Cloud: It will take Time

Technology for social good

by on July 13, 2018 10:31 am
As someone with a primarily engineering background, one of the most interesting subjects I learned about through this week’s lectures is entrepreneurship. While the focus of this week was on the technology behind cloud computing, Montse Medina’s summary of lessons learned in entrepreneurship were especially valuable because they highlighted the importance of skills that cannot… Read more Technology for social good

Why China is taking over the cloud computing market

by on July 13, 2018 10:08 am
You’d be wise to assume that the fastest growing cloud computing company is one of the big 3; Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Though they may operate the largest networks of data centers yet they are definitely not the fastest growing companies in the cloud computing segment. [1] That honor belongs to Chinese giant Alibaba, in… Read more Why China is taking over the cloud computing market

The Future of Cloud Computing

by on July 13, 2018 9:50 am
In April 1964, IBM introduced the first Main Frame Computer called System 360. [1] Those computers, even though not to be compared to todays computers in terms of size and performance marked the beginning of the era of computing in which we are today. Another important Date was the 20 December 1990. That day, the… Read more The Future of Cloud Computing