EmergeTech Seminar 3

This seminar got me back to speed. The topic was cloud computing, it wasn't really an emerging technology, but it was a "new" one with still alot of possibilities. But like the previous speaker, this was a good speaker but a semi interesting topic. Cloud computing is something i am really interested in, i've been using it for a long time now, but not like the one she's discussing. I thought cloud computing was when i send emails to people or to myself, post something online or a cloud, use file sharing sites like drop.io. One of my favorite ones was what we used to collaborate when we were doing our thesis, DropBox. This was new to me and seemed very interesting, a desktop folder which was also a cloud folder. It was so cool because now we, my thesismates had one common folder without the use of constantly emailing each other or the hassle of trading flash drives to exchange files. But in this seminar what she was talking about was more advanced.

Ofcourse like any other thing, there are the Why's and Why Nots. Why use cloud computing- very efficient, has value for money because of the Pay-for-what-you-use thing, and it's independence of location and device. Why Nots - Since this is a somewhat new technology, there are some paranoia's of security, people will find it very hard to entrust all their information to some internet thing like iTunes or something. Who's to blame them, stuff like credit card info are very important and if someone were to hack into these would entail something tragic. But as the technology matures, and alot of people trust and use this, it becomes normal and the remaining people will soon follow. Another why not is because since it is new, people-developers will have to learn this and adapt to it. People are "tamad" lazy to change and adapt something new unless they really have to. But sooner or later the herd will follow, or they WILL get left behind.