The Cloud vs. The Hackers

[pulse2]

Was watching something last night that stated that while the cloud is supposed to be the future and more and more businesses are going that direction, its extremely insecure, even more so if you aren't paying subscription as you have no one to sue.

Apparently the ironic thing is that hackers can in fact use the encryption of your personal details as a way to decrypt them, never did I think a safety measure could in fact be so dangerous, this was hypothetic though, it has yet to happen, so who knows what's possible.

Anywho, are you keen to join the cloud? Think it could be the future or is it far too vulnerable for your liking?

 

[devotedsniper]

I don't think it will be that big a hit (in business anyway) because the cloud (if i understand the concept properly) is for sharing (pooling) the processing power and memory of many machines, and well...if you need multiple machines to have enough power to do tasks, most companys (such as video editing and CGI companys) will have farms set up (computers linked together to speed up the process), so really i don't see any point in cloud. Also after looking at a wiki of it, it's on about being able to update and access files (and share programs) from one place and while this is a good idea, again theres already software out there which allows for this.

So in conclusion in the home enviroment it will be more or less useless (unless you have at least 3-4 computers which are always on), even then the average household doesn't need to combine resources for computing power (and if you think it would be great to boost you gaming capabilites think again, you'll have to deal with lag because of the transfer, issues with working routers to hard, routers needing to restart for some reason holding up teamwork, the list of issues which can happen goes on and on), it will also slow down your networks performance with all of this new activity.

In the business enviroment? maybe for updating and sharing files in real time but otherwise i don't really see much use for it when we have existing tech which can already do what this tech offers.

In theory it's a good idea to have evenly distributed computing power and i think it will have some good effects (such as computers only used for excel and such using its spare power to help other machines) but i think it will also have some bad effects (computers needing all the power there hardware provides finding 25% of it's busy helping some other machine), it's 50/50 either way, i personally think most businesses won't bother since it will most likely be costly to set up and any company needing to share processing power more than likely have farms already set up (just look at operating systems most companies still use XP across their network, and only a few are only going over to 7 because it's exetremely costly to change over).

I don't know we'll just have to wait and see, i very much doubt i will allow my computer to share it's power since it's used for gaming.

 

[Esotera]

I can see the attraction for businesses, keeping all useful documents in a place that is always accessible, but see no reason for an individual to use it. Services like Google Docs are getting to be pretty competitive with Microsoft Office. Then again, it all depends on the size of the company. If you're small, then you'd be better off with a non-cloud based service. But most big companies have a dedicated IT department anyway, so why bother?

Personally, I have no need for the cloud; when I need to access something on another computer I'll send it in an email as an attachment or use a usb. And things like Sync in Firefox are ridiculous - who actually uses them?