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I take it that HP are awful...

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I'd say HP isn't exactly riding the wave of consumer trends these days.>> ^Deano:

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I take it that HP are awful...

I'm trying not to turn into a curmudgeon, but marketing speak like "the cloud" is so irritating when the only point is to mystify something profoundly mundane. If you offer online storage, just say that.

Slowly but surely, I am trying to turn myself into a curmudgeon. Now get off my lawn!

So we went from big mainframe servers built to run under lots of load and be super redundant. To moving to PCs because processing power and memory was getting cheaper, and it allowed you to do hobby projects and start small businesses without all the mainframe costs.

Now we are going from very powerful personal computers that can store lots of data (although backing it up is rather tricky/expensive to do well). To going back to trying to put everything on a mainframe/server again, but this time it uses the the internet instead of dial up connections, lans, etc.

That's fine, if they can make backing stuff up cheaper and more reliable via the new offerings...awesome. I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of "The Cloud" being anything more than masking the client/server relationship.

The cloud to me makes it sounds more like a branding name for a service than the terminology you should use to describe all servers with internet access that allow you to store and access data. Sounds like something you'd use to describe it to your grandmother or kid. Makes people feel warm and safe like their data can never be lost......and that's a lie.

Side discussion: purposefully not putting parody and comedy tags to avoid spoiling it vs just put them on there anyway to avoid confusing people?

Go.

>> ^Lendl:

Side discussion: purposefully not putting parody and comedy tags to avoid spoiling it vs just put them on there anyway to avoid confusing people?
Go.


Soon as you start the video you can see the onion - NN symbol. Even if you don't, I think it stands either way...so might as well categorize it properly.

I have 2 TB of drives in my local computer. I could backup everything I have three or four times and still not fill 2 TB. So I don't need to backup my shit online, but more important than need, I don't understand why I would want to hand over my files to someone else.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:

I have 2 TB of drives in my local computer. I could backup everything I have three or four times and still not fill 2 TB. So I don't need to backup my shit online, but more important than need, I don't understand why I would want to hand over my files to someone else.
Because while you're protected if your primary drive goes "BRAAAARRRRGGG-KCH-KCH-KCH-KCH-KCH", if your home burns then your backup drive is as toast as your primary. You need offsite redundancy.


Personally, I use CrashPlan to backup from my home computer to an external drive on my work computer. (I own my business, in case you were wondering about that.) So, it's still not "The Cloud", which is...The Internet? Apparently?

It's all very simple. Any time you see "cloud" or "cloud computing", simply substitute "some server(s) somewhere". If it's "The Cloud", you may instead use "Some Server(s) Somewhere on the Internet".

For some people, the term carries the added notion of somewhat intelligent/automated scalability in terms of capability and possibly billing. However, this is rarely explained to anyone as it's much too complex for techno-peons to comprehend.

The Cloud. Truly a buzzword for the ages.

The "cloud" is about paying someone else to manage infrastructure that you don't want to, can't afford to, or are not properly trained to. Offsite storage is a single example of cloud-based services, and an overly simplistic one at that. Even still, maybe I don't want to pay for an IT salary to support a raid, maybe I don't want to maintain a server-room, condition it, provide power for it, when I can pay a monthly rate to have access to the same amount of space, and when my accounting guys are much happier budgeting for a service than paying for a piece of physical capital that will eventually go obsolete and have to be disposed of.

So yeah, "the cloud" is admittedly a piece of marketing hype, but only because IT pro's haven't done a good job articulating what it really does to the business boys.

>> ^Lendl:

Side discussion: purposefully not putting parody and comedy tags to avoid spoiling it vs just put them on there anyway to avoid confusing people?
Go.


If you can't figure out it's a parody, you are probably already quite confused.

>> ^kymbos:

Slowly but surely, I am trying to turn myself into a curmudgeon. Now get off my lawn!


Missed opportunity.

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Thanks to the Patriot Act the government can "sift" through any data they want in any American-based or American-Owned (even in a different country) server, at any time, with no one having to be told.

So... WHO wants you to put your data "in the Cloud"?

If you put you're DATA on the Cloud, (servers based in the US), you automatically give the US government the right of access to the DATA. The US government can in turn choose to use that DATA any way it wants to, including coming after you.

This includes any type of of DATA or Storage. Any US site you give access to your DATA is a flag to the US Gov.

In Canada, at my institution, we've been instructed to never use these services at any time, for any reason for security reasons.