A presentation prepared for the 2012 Southern African Online Information Meeting, entitled "Innovation in an Age of Limits".
In this presentation, I explain how cloud computing has affected my everyday life. I also provide definitions of cloud computing, compare it to the industrial revolution, and highlight some dangers associated with this computing paradigm.
Cloud computing: how will it affect my everday work life?
1. How will cloud computing
affect my everyday life?
Kosie Eloff
Department of Information Science
University of Pretoria
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33. A consequence of
multiple factors
(Wardley)
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34. Concept Suitability Technology Attitude
1. The concept of cloud
computing
35. 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).”
36. Concept Suitability Technology Attitude
2. Are IT activities
suitable for this
transformation?
37. From novel, rare and poorly
understood…
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43. 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?
45. Cloud computing
Why not outsource computing* to
the internet?
*
Applications & infrastructure
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46. Concept Suitability Technology Attitude
4. Are people willing to
use cloud computing?
47. “All organisations
need to continuously
evolve and adapt.”
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48. Applications
delivered as
services over the
internet
Hardware/software in data centers
that provide these services
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50. Ebooks
In the
cloud
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52. 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.
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54. 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/
55. Cloud computing
(Library-centric)
“The broad concept of using
the internet to allow people
access to technology-enabled
library services”
60. 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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62. For both provider and customer
Secure infrastructure
Client data and applications
protected
Liability
Intellectual property
End-of-service
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73. 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.
74. References
Lynn, Samara. (2010). 13 Terrific Cloud
Services for Small Business. PC
Magazine.
Chappel, David. (2008). A short
introduction to cloud platforms.
DavidChappel & Associates.
77. References
Armbrust et al. (2010). What cloud
computing really means.
Communications of the ACM.
Wardley, Simon. Cloud computing:
why IT matters. (2009). OSCON 2009.