Cloud Computing - Is it the future?

December 26, 6:13 AMWorkplace ExaminerHoward Flomberg

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Simplicity! Elegance! An environment where  a user can function by paying attention to the problem, not the technical details of the solution. We seem to have gotten our paths crossed. We reward complexity and dismiss simplicity. The "cloud" is an attempt to move us back in that direction.

Google has done it right!  Their model has the  basic business applications in the cloud. The user community shares access to these tools.  Currently,  Microsoft sells its "Small Business Edition" of Office for about $450.00. Their biggest and best version of Office is nearly $700.00. So, you have an office of eight to ten people, you do the math!

By moving the application software and databases to their multi gazilion-byte servers you can concentrate on the product. Security - What about security? Off the shelf security has the CIA angered - they can't crack it.

Cloud Computing or more accurately, Virtualization, is not a new concept - I've been reading about software utility companies for decades, but the idea was there before the technology was there.

What will this mean to us? Cheaper, dumber computers that are primarily links to the Web. We may be approaching Jim Kirk's running dialog with the nebulous computer voice.