Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Muddiest Point
How do cloud computing services make any money? The charges are pretty negligible, so are there just lots of people using those services? How does anyone find out about them?
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Muddiest Point
Is there any way to really prevent the security risks discussed this week? Wouldn't it be difficult to promote access and keep security tight?
Week 14 Readings
What Cloud Computing Really Means
So the cloud is the internet, and cloud computing is a way of getting online services to IT people for storage or applications or anything. This saves people from having to buy/maintain new software or more storage or anything they else they can get from cloud computing, because they are renting the use from someone else. I think. But who actually receives or pays for services? The article kept saying IT, but who does that refer to? IT departments? Or can regular people use these services too? Or are they services that computers use without people necessarily knowing about?
Explaining Cloud Computing youtube video
The British man has already answered my questions above, and I'm only a minute into the video! Apparently, anyone can use cloud computing! Individual users would use those resources to be able to access their stuff from anywhere and companies would use it to keep their costs down.
Whoa! Google Docs is cloud computing?? Who knew?? Cloud computing is kind of awesome!
The Future of Libraries
This article discusses ten things that will change the future role of the library and librarians. I wish he had gone into more of a time frame regarding this. Sure all these changes are on the horizon, but how soon will they actually occur? 10 years from now? 15? 20? more? I definitely think some of his points are going to happen sooner than others, like I'm not entirely convinced that books will ever become solely digital. I think his recommendations to librarians are valid things to keep in mind as librarians now, even if all the changes he speculates on don't happen or do. His suggestions are just part of ensuring a good experience for patrons.
So the cloud is the internet, and cloud computing is a way of getting online services to IT people for storage or applications or anything. This saves people from having to buy/maintain new software or more storage or anything they else they can get from cloud computing, because they are renting the use from someone else. I think. But who actually receives or pays for services? The article kept saying IT, but who does that refer to? IT departments? Or can regular people use these services too? Or are they services that computers use without people necessarily knowing about?
Explaining Cloud Computing youtube video
The British man has already answered my questions above, and I'm only a minute into the video! Apparently, anyone can use cloud computing! Individual users would use those resources to be able to access their stuff from anywhere and companies would use it to keep their costs down.
Whoa! Google Docs is cloud computing?? Who knew?? Cloud computing is kind of awesome!
The Future of Libraries
This article discusses ten things that will change the future role of the library and librarians. I wish he had gone into more of a time frame regarding this. Sure all these changes are on the horizon, but how soon will they actually occur? 10 years from now? 15? 20? more? I definitely think some of his points are going to happen sooner than others, like I'm not entirely convinced that books will ever become solely digital. I think his recommendations to librarians are valid things to keep in mind as librarians now, even if all the changes he speculates on don't happen or do. His suggestions are just part of ensuring a good experience for patrons.
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