Computing in the Cloud

#216 | 20:05 |

Lab Rats

Monday April 5, 2010

Andy and Sean take a look at the topic of cloud computing.

. Do I really want to trust my important data to the ethereal cloud? The guys explain cloud computing, share some of their experiences and offer some

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Cloud Computing = Internet-based shared computing power. Of course you have to consider whether the time uploading the data to the cloud balances the time saved by processing it there.

See the history section of Amazon at labratsonline.com/amazoncloud.

Folding @ Home = labratsonline.com/folding.

Mozy Online Backup = labratsonline.com/mozy.

Apple iDisk = labratsonline.com/idisk.

Google Docs = labratsonline.com/googledocs.

Windows Azure = labratsonline.com/windowsazure.

The big problem is upload speeds for consumers are often only a fraction of download speeds.

Intel Atom processors are low-powered processors found on netbooks and net appliances.

"Dumb Terminals" are machines without any serious computing power onboard: labratsonline.com/dumbterminal.

Check out Carbonite: labratsonline.com/carbonite.

One example of cloud insecurity: labratsonline.com/cloud-insecurity.

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