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How will cloud computing
       affect my everyday life?




Kosie Eloff
Department of Information Science
University of Pretoria
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Sharing & Backup




Storage & Transport



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I don’t use mine

     (Much)
My flash disk “in the cloud”.
Same folder…
  at home
  at work
Dropbox folder on PC /
       laptop
Dropbox folder on iPad
Viewed through a browser
Cloud-based
file management
Before definitions…
Cyberspace
       The net
       The web
Information highway
   Global village
“Internet computing”
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Cloud computing

“… lets you use files and
 applications over the
       Internet.”
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Pixlr.com

Browser-based image editor
  Also mobile application
Cloud computing: how will it affect my everday work life?
Cloud computing

“A shift in the geography of
        computation”
Microsoft grew during PC
   revolution (1980s)



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Install…
                                   Maintain…
                                   Upgrade…
                                   Support…




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Google is now doing the
same, but on the internet
          cloud
           http://www.electronet.se/dynamic/Google_Apps.jpg
Google’s operating system
     (in the cloud)
Google Docs
Google Docs Sharing
Google’s operating system
     (in the cloud)
Google+
Integration with search
Google is slowly
integrating all these
 services and more…
… using the internet as a
       platform.
Cloud computing: how will it affect my everday work life?
Simon Wardley

“Cloud computing is a transition, not a
               thing.”

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    …is a transition, not a thing.
A consequence of
multiple factors
   (Wardley)




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Concept   Suitability   Technology   Attitude




    1. The concept of cloud
            computing
John McCarthy (1960)




“…a future in which computing power and
 even specific applications could be sold
   through the utility business model
       (like water or electricity).”
Concept     Suitability   Technology   Attitude




          2. Are IT activities
          suitable for this
          transformation?
From novel, rare and poorly
       understood…




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To commonplace, more well-defined
As soon as one company
    gains some sort of
technological advantage…
  … then all its competitors
      will follow suit.
Concept     Suitability   Technology   Attitude




          3. Do we have the
             technology?
Time-sharing (1960s)




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Personal computing (1980s)




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Personal computing (1980s)
Total control (PC) comes at a price:

1) Install / configure / update /
   maintain operating software
2) Same with hardware

Also… how to share information,
now?
Client-server model
       (1980s)
Cloud computing



 Why not outsource computing* to
          the internet?




*
Applications & infrastructure
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Concept   Suitability   Technology   Attitude




  4. Are people willing to
    use cloud computing?
“All organisations
need to continuously
 evolve and adapt.”



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Applications
      delivered as
      services over the
      internet
Hardware/software in data centers
    that provide these services




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One last example

Before I get to the bad stuff.
Ebooks
                                  In the
                                  cloud




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0Woman%20with%20letters%20flying%20out%20of%20her%20book.jpg
Ebooks in libraries
Overdrive
Management of digital content for
publisher, libraries, schools, and
retailers.

More than 500,000 digital titles
from more than 1,000 publishers in
March 2011.



  http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/01/25/3m-ebook-cloud-library/
Ebooks in libraries
3M
Ebook collections will grow and
libraries will need help managing
them.

A very large opportunity as libraries
shift their spend from physical
material to digital material

By about 2015, a third of all books
sold will be digital in the United
States.
   http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/01/25/3m-ebook-cloud-library/
Cloud computing
      (Library-centric)

 “The broad concept of using
the internet to allow people
access to technology-enabled
       library services”
Sounds good? Well…
If computing is moving to
      the internet…
  ... and we know the internet
       can be a scary place...
Risks of CC



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1. Privacy
Questions about control and
             ownership

Can you take your data with you?
Could you lose access?
Can you remove data?
How does the host monitor your
data?



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2. Security
For both provider and customer

Secure infrastructure
Client data and applications
protected
Liability
Intellectual property
End-of-service



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3. Reliability
Internet connectivity




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Network downtime




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To summarise…




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Cloud computing
… when computing itself moves
online.
… when computing becomes a utility.
Not a thing, rather a
     transition




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Factors driving this
                       transition



     Concept               Suitability            Technology                Attitude




http://kambing.ui.ac.id/onnopurbo/library/library-ref-eng/ref-eng-3/network/server_cloud.pdf
Libraries will increasingly use the
   internet to provide services




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Issues related to cloud
       computing


Security
Privacy
Reliability
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References
Warren, C. (2012). What Megaupload
Teaches Us About the Cloud, SOPA and
Backups. Mashable.

Moylan, Martin. (2012). Libraries turn
to cloud for e-book lending. MPR
News.
References
Lynn, Samara. (2010). 13 Terrific Cloud
Services for Small Business. PC
Magazine.

Chappel, David. (2008). A short
introduction to cloud platforms.
DavidChappel & Associates.
References
Wikipedia contributors. (2012).
Introduction to cloud computing.
Date of last revision: 5 June 2012.

Hayes, Bryan. (2008). Cloud
Computing. Communications of the
ACM.
References
Geelan, Jeremy. (2009). Twenty-One
Experts Define Cloud Computing.
Cloud Computing Journal.

Knorr, Eric., Gruman, Galen. (2011)
What cloud computing really means.
Infoworld.
References
Armbrust et al. (2010). What cloud
computing really means.
Communications of the ACM.

Wardley, Simon. Cloud computing:
why IT matters. (2009). OSCON 2009.

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