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Originally Posted by study_hard
Me in.... 
It's late... have to sleep. Nahi to office mein vatt lagegi kal.
Guys.. as of now let's discuss about cloud computing. What say?
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Defn: allowing users to access technology-enabled services from the Internet (the cloud) without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them.
hmmm few examples.. googledocs, apple MobileMe, Zoho office, adobe photoshop express.. , EyeOS (yeah its an OS to be used online)
Advantages: Since the programs and files you need aren’t native to a particular computer or drive, you can access all your necessary information via any computer with an internet connection. So all the work you do, gets stored not on any drive but on some servers at xyz location.. hence the risk of data loss is very low.
2ndly, it provide a very good access to ur files and also lets you work with it on the move.
Disadv : When I say low risk of data loss, it is subjective to the terms and conditions of the application. They have the right to terminate your account and dont gaurantee that your files are safe.
2ndly, internet connectivity is still not stable. Especially when we talk about mobile internet connectivity and cloud computing largely depends on it..
Cloud computing has revolutionised the way we use internet but its still dependent on the network infra. It is very good for people who are on the move and can be put a productive use by them.. Using it for critical files, well.. i would prefer to backup my hard drive rather then storing something online where data backup is not gauranteed. Well but it can also be seen as a cheap backup to store ur files.