Cloud Computing Alan Royal HobCon "Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant." - Mitchell Kapor

Cloud Computing – what is this you may well ask? Is it just another of these fancy terms that the geeks are introducing to confuse us? Actually, it has been around for a long time under different guises e.g. Web 2 applications are ‘cloud based.’ You are a privileged group! Why? As of June 2009 a survey (http://fwd4.me/IG5) showed 41% of IT professionals did not understand what ‘cloud computing’ was about. At present, if you want to do a task on your machine, such as writing a document, preparing a business spreadsheet, or a presentation, you purchase software to run on your computer (unless you are using the free open source software such as Libre Office or similar). Once the task is complete, you store the result on your machines hard drive(s). To keep your data safe you may have purchased an external hard drive, CD/DVDs, flash drives or memory cards The software and staorage material are capital expenditure. With ‘cloud computing’, you rely on applications that are on the web, which you just call up through your browser. The result of ‘cloud computing’ is: 

limited (or nil) application software



eliminates personal PC storage



gave a 16% reduction in energy costs (http://fwd4.me/IG3).

 reduced IT costs (but be prepared to buy a fight with your IT personnel!) A September 2009 survey showed up to an 18 % reduction in IT costs (http://fwd4.me/IG3) in organisations using ‘cloud computing’. One example of ‘cloud computing’ Google Docs (now Google Drive), is located at http://tinyurl.com/yf9yfdx, an application suite on the web, which allows you to carry out word processing, spreadsheet operations, prepare presentationsand access many tools and templates. The application even allows you to save your documents and spreadsheets in several formats, including as a PDF file. Google Docs, in the computer lingo, is described as Software as a Service (SaaS) – a ‘cloud’ component’. You can now also work on Google Drive material offline. You can save your data (15GB free, in a wide choice of formats, and extendible in separate accounts) on the web, share it with named recipients (through email), or make it available publicly, through an address provided by the server. Saving the data on the web-based servers introduces more computing lingo – Hardware as a Service (HaaS). Not only have you now saved capital expenditure on software and hardware, you have saved your data in a very secure

manner. Let me explain. There is a third component to ‘cloud computing’, apart from SaaS and Haas and that is called a distributed network – which is the backbone that connects and manages SaaS and HaaS. If you have used Google Docs as your web based application software and saved it on Google servers it is, by all accounts, very safe. It is rumoured that Google will not have server storage in any country that is unstable, thus reducing the risk of security failure. It is also said, that if a countries law does not allow armed protection of a server site, then that country is bypassed. The other advantage of ‘cloud’ storage is that in the case of organisations like Google and Microsoft, data is distributed on various servers around the world. Microsoft is also developing a place in ‘cloud computing’. They have Skydrive (now called OneDrive) found at https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us, which is part of their Windows Live package. It allows you to store 7GB of data for free, on the web. The version of Microsoft Office – Office 2010, has, I understand, a cut down version of an application similar to Google Docs (word processing and spreadsheet), that replaces Microsoft Works. To gain a perspective on where Microsoft is heading, (in March 2009) CEO Steve Ballmer said (http://fwd4.me/IG3), “70% of the 40,000 people who work on software at Microsoft are in some way working in the cloud, A year from now, that will be 90 percent”. There are many other cloud storage locations such as Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com, (2GB)and Flickr (images). On Flickr, at https://www.flickr.com, everyone gets 1000GB of free storage, enough space for more than 500,000 photos. You can get ‘apps’ for phone and mobiles. There are other organisations that provide their own infrastructure for ‘cloud computing’ e.g., Xero, at http://tinyurl.com/5fkurq, a New Zealand based online accounting software company. This company is developing a wide differentiated client base. I have mentioned them specifically to indicate another way online computing is moving into the ‘cloud computing’ field. MYOB accounting software leaders have recently announced they are going ‘cloud’ Another useful example is the free Adobe Photoshop Express, at http://www.photoshop.com/tools?wf=editor, which allows online manipulation of images. Having described the process of ‘cloud computing’, a classic example of its use in relation to ‘cloud computing’ is SeniorNet Wellington, a blog site at http://seniornetwgtn.blogspot.com. The University of Waikato School of Management uses the site as a model for non-profit organisations. One major reason is the fact that it is ‘cloud’ based, and as such is completely free and easy to build and maintain apart from time. Hosting is also free. The free tools that have been used are:  Blogger at https://www.blogger.com/start, to build the platform for the site. All you need is a free Google account to create a blog in three easy steps.

 Google Maps to provide a premises location (as it is said seniors don’t know where they are going, when they have got there they don’t know where they are and then they don’t know how to get home!) as well as Northbound and Southbound bus stops and parking venues (including costs. Contact details are also provided.  Discussion page, which is a Google Group where we can post miscellaneous material, conduct conversations and hold useful references.  Google Sites which has our audit trails as a site page, and is also used for storing our data (see status bar when hovering over the links)  Google Calendar for the Events Diary (which can also be set to call your cell phone at a time you specify before an event, with an SMS message. 

Google Search



Google ‘Cloud’ listings showing ‘most popular’ blog links



FeedBurner which provides free email updates



Publications o

Class Application Form 2010

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Events Diary

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Information Booklet

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Manuals Available

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Newsletters

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Our archives

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Term 1 2010 Timetable

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Tutors' Page (with external links to articles and programmes)

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Year Planner 2010

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Workshop Notes Page (directing to notes held on other Google sites).

Extra (linked) pages can be added to a Blogger site by creating a new page and embedding your blog site template. A new exciting application (‘cloud’ based) is the Google Chrome OS, an operating system based on the Google Chrome browser, whereby you can access cloud based tools to manage and store data. Google Apps is accessible through this browser. The Chromium project is at

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os. It has produced small, cheap and lightweight computers now available. Web albums such as Picasa and Flickr are cloud based services, as is You Tube at http://youtube.com. A further example is XMarks (http://www.xmarks.com) whereby you can synchronise and store your bookmarks or favourites in the ‘cloud.’

Cloud computing - SeniorNet Wellington

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