Work and Life in the Mobile Society in Cloud Computing Course

What is Work and Life in the Mobile Society in Cloud Computing?

Imagine not having to mow the lawn, take the garbage out or do the dishes, being able to spend more time doing what we’re really interested in. That’s one man's dream. Add to this not having to own a lawnmower or dishwasher and it gets even better. Now transpose this to a business context and you get a fair idea of what cloud computing is.

Cloud computing is less about what than how we’re doing things. In fact, its intention is to allow users to do exactly what they’ve always been doing but in a greener, more effective, less costly, easily scalable and self-healing way. The picture looks perfect. But is it, really? Leaving all the rasping chores and responsibilities in one another’s hands and focussing on more critical tasks seems to be. In short, all this implies that those secondary services you need will be executed somewhere, any time you want, on another’s physical infrastructure (about which you don’t have to care) and in some unknown way, provided the result will be the same. That’s great indeed and those are assumed strengths of cloud computing but they might easily turn into concerns as well and fast.

Content

• Issues
  • Loss of Control
  • Reliability
• Future
• Conclusion