Dropbox is one of the most popular types of Cloud Storage and this is demonstrated in the fact that many, many providers have cloned it. Dropbox, as popular, as it may be however, seems to be too expensive. Either that, or providers like Amazon have been able to clone it in such a way that [...]
Understanding Cloud Storage And How To Choose The Right Provider
March 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
The word “Cloud” is becoming more and more present in our daily vocabulary, but not everybody quite understands just what it is yet. We know that we can store things on it, particularly if we have an iPhone or iPad, which comes with Cloud storage included. However, its exact ins and outs remain a mystery [...]
2012 Cloud Trends Prove Consumers Use Cloud Services Daily
November 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In some ways, it’s hard to believe that the cloud has become so interconnected with many of our daily lives. While consumers may not understand the cloud in any real technical depth, it is clear that it is not only here to stay, it’s surprisingly widespread and being used by a significant portion of the population [...]
Consumer Grade Cloud Storage Rarely Appropriate for Enterprises
October 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Businesses today know that cloud storage offers them incredible benefits and that it can enhance productivity in a big way. Employees can get more done while on the go, whether they need to be out of the office to visit somewhere else, are in transit and need to keep getting work done or even at [...]
Gartner: Cloud Computing Hype Peaked in 2009
June 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It was almost 4 years ago when Gartner came out with this paper put forward this idea of the “hype curve.” Essentially, the curve is like a bell that is mashed against the left side of the graph. As is illustrated in the figure, you have a buildup of expectations and then a quick slide [...]
Modern-day Blue Screen of Death: “Trying to connect to google.com…”
June 18, 2012 by 1 Comment
It’s today’s “Blue Screen of Death.” You’re working on this really long doc on Google Apps, and 500 words into it, you realize that none of your work is being saved automatically, and hasn’t been saved in 10 or so minutes. It’s the kind of thing that can totally throw off project, or even your [...]
Startups Today: Born and Raised in the Cloud
June 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
While some business find migrating to the cloud a cinch, others are struggling with it. And yet another set—startups—are born every day, in the cloud, and they’re maturing in the cloud. Starting a business, because so many basic administrative services about running a business is hosted and accessible via web browsers, is so much easier [...]
Is “The Cloud” Really an Attempt at a Master Switch?
June 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A world without URLs; that’s the cloud. That’s the ultimate vision and situation that many players in the cloud (that truly get the cloud) see; that’s where they’re trying to drive things. That’s certainly the case with Google. More and more of its products are stripping URLs out of sight. Of course, URLs are still [...]
Knowledge in them thar clouds?
June 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s clear that Google sees the writing on the wall: keyword based search is simplistic, and gaming search is way too easy, when you weigh so heavily on mere links, keywords, language, etc. So, what’s Google’s answer to this? Well, they’re calling the direction they’re taking the “knowledge graph.” But unlike the open graph that [...]
The perfect cloud technology is accessible from anywhere, doesn’t require a bunch of resources, and is … unprofitable.
June 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Better than any other cloud technology company, Twitter understands the cloud. From the get-go, it’s imagery displayed this idea that you send data up to its cloud, like a tweeting bird, and that you can access its cloud or network from anywhere, anytime—regardless of hardware and bandwidth restraints. Far too many cloud solutions are useful, [...]
Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It was bound to happen; more and more of our information is digital and in the cloud—stored and saved forever, in a state that can be used over and over again, thanks to servers upon servers that backup backups of backups. At first, there were simple status updates: in 140 characters or less, tell me [...]
Should Wonder Kids be Allowed to Rule the Cloud?
June 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
Ever wonder about what might have happened, had Sergey and Larry kept executive control of Google? Ever think about what the cloud could be like in the near future, should many 20-somethings keep control of key pieces of infrastructure? It’s a bit ageist, but it’s one of these biases and discriminatory that has had some [...]
Quantity-over-Quality versus Quality-over-Quantity
June 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In May 2012, Wired’s Cloudline regurgitated a news release for IBM (who sponsors the blog—surprise, surprise) about how great IBM’s cloud offerings are. The gist of it is that IBM contends that it’s a cloud technology player that is actually a “force to be reckoned with.” Then the blog proceeded to spit out the same [...]
Will the bottlenecks in American healthcare ever get unstuck?
May 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Healthcare and medicine (by the very nature of the discipline) is chock full of jargon. There’s HIPAA; there’s the CPT billing code set (owned and licensed out by the AMA—another acronym). There’s the ICD diagnosis code set. And here’s another one: DICOM, it stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. And it’s standard digital [...]
Using the Cloud to Store, Write, and Save Rough Drafts and Notes
May 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I never took to Windows’ desktop gadgets. I did, for a time, use Google Desktop—until it was discontinued. And the reason why I didn’t take to Gadgets was because they were locked down on the desktop. Take the Sticky Notes Gadget as a prime example of this. Okay, great; it looks like a sticky note: [...]
