Cloud computing

I just heard about this and have only read a little about it....my understanding is it will eventually end IT techs......thoughts??

 

Like functioning governments and communism, it's a theory that works fantastically on paper but is not viable under real world conditions except in a few select instances.

 

The lifespan of an IT Techy will expand as fast as the Internet itself, and be therefore guaranteed by its continued existence.[/QUOTE]

Now that is what I wanted to hear.......I am not in computer school for nothing!!:-D

 

Virtualization, Cloud Computing, it gets confrusing. But there are so many folks that will screw around with stuff and screw stuff up! And the physical layer is usually the first to fail.

 

Isn't virtualisation and cloud computing back to the old days of mainframes where all the apps are stored on a central server hosted in centralised (now virutalised) operating systems? and all you need is a less heavy windows client to run them? Someone still has to set it all up and configure to each and every person and business and transition the current business model into the virtual worlds. Then there is the data security aspect of it being stored and managed by someone else... When I think of Cloud Computing, the term Cloud-Cuckooland comes to mind or money for old rope.

 

Is this not a bit like folding that we now do for Stanford?
Where thousands of PCs share a mainframe an use the software form that server.

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7400/300pxcloudcomputingsvg5.png

 

Oh, a bot-net...

 

I'll tell you what. When computing has advanced to the point where all connections are lag free, then I'll believe it possible. Until then, I still disbelieve.

 

I'm kind of fascinated with "cloud computing" and share some of the same concerns...but I started out on mainframe unix servers, in the pre-GUI, pre-web days, and I can remember all the scorn we had for silly as little macs and their pictures, and then silly MS w/their "windows"...and then of course, we all thought the Mosaic "World Wide Web" was hilarious, and wouldn't go anywhere...*Email* now that was staying, but all the silly little sites, no way...and when all the search engines were competing with each other, webcrawler, yahoo, google...we knew the last two would never make, just cuz their names were so silly: I was actually offered a job, helping develop and test search engines for Yahoo, but all they really had to offer was "stock options" and I was too ashamed to work for such a silly sounding company...so I don't have, like, "good foresight" or I'd be sailing the world, w/my stock option fortune, etc....

But *anyway* I'm reading Carr's book, "The Big Switch," and here is an article he wrote in Computer World, on Cloud Computing,

www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=330039



I'm a believer, that, it's where the future lies, actually, more like "electricity" than the old main frames, but I see the similarities too...but I installed Panda Cloud, and I found a friend''s computer w/a couple of trojan droppers yesterday, running the usual MG recommended scans, but I also made a copy of his system, on a spare HD, and ran Panda Cloud on it, and it caught all 17 malware incidences--trojans and and other forms of spyware--and it's performed fine on my fairly clean vista box, and so "we'll see" could be just another weird thing, but so far, I'm convinced...and it's free...here's official site, but u can google it and read less biased reports, but this one has link to cloud downloads, if u are interested, as I am:

http://blog.cloudantivirus.com/

And they explain why you can't run other anti-spyware at the same time...it'll just slow u way down, and screw things up...so I turn off panda, if I want to run something else, which is easiest way...