[arachne] Re: What is "cloud computing" ???
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:29:46 -0800
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Sam, Wiz, Ron,
I don't understand why it is tauted as a
new concept. It is very similar to my shell
account with GDFN. It's just spread over
more computers which I'm not sure really
makes it any better. That's the way computer-
ization started only using mainframe computers.
Sure, now the power computer can be anywhere
on earth or outer space but does that really make
it any better. Of course, it can mean more people
connected with cheaper equipment to accomplish
their tasks. <ggg>
Eric
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:04:40 -0500 (EST) "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
writes:
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> On Fri, December 12, 2008 3:06 pm, Ron Clarke wrote:
> Maybe not to you, but it matters to me.
> >
> > What is still fresh in my mind is the fire in a server farm in
> Dallas
> > Texas. That server farm hosted web domains, including both of
> mine. I
> > lost nothing, but others were not so lucky. My domains are now
> hosted
> > in Sydney, Australia.
> >
> > Now, what if I had had my business records there as well ?
>
>
> Well, business records ought to be in more than one "place", that's
> for sure. You think Sydney is safer than Dallas? Depends on your
> luck.
>
> Certainly business documents and works in progress ought to be in
> more places than a vulnerable laptop being carried around the world
> by business travel.
>
> I am uneasy myself about Google. Gmail is wildly popular now. At
> least
> half of the new email addresses I ran across are Gmail. It's a robust
> application, but you have to put up with advertising and it's not
> secure.
>
> There is no real privacy on the internet.
>
> I've always liked the concept of remote computing, but, as you point
> out there are problems with security and control.
>
>
> Sam Ewalt
>
>
> >
> >> Keep extending this idea. Why does an enterprise need its own
> >> servers as long as service is available?
> >
> > To ensure that all the important stuff is safe from mishap, and
> is
> > backed up properly and regularly.
> > And that my confidential stuff is not so vulnerable to either
> hackers
> > (including government agencies) or corrupted server-farm employees.
> >
> >> Services don't need to reside in a location. They just need to
> >> exist and be locatable. They can float through the cloud like
> >> ideas float through our brains.
> >
> > If you want "cloud" functionality for Arachne - you already
> have it.
> > Read the documents on "netdos".
> > See: arachne\doc\netdos.htm for Michael Polak's original
> explanation.
> >
> > Not a lot of applications available yet, just proof of concept,
> but it
> > DOES work.
> > See: http://www.ausreg.com/netdos/netdos.htm
> >
> > If there are favourite single-executable DOS programs that
> anyone would
> > like hosted in an "Arachne cloud", speak up ! Ya never know what
> is
> > possible until ya try. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron
> >
> > --
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