Cloud Computing and the GDrive
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Have you heard the latest bleeding edge buzz in corporate information technology? It appears that as Web 2.0 evolves, it will do so with cloud computing as a large part of the change and massive, internet-available hard drives such as Google’s GDrive as an integral piece of business strategy for modern corporations.
Cloud computing is so called because in network diagrams, a cloud represents the internet. Cloud architecture and cloudware, then, refer to a hard drive located on the internet and software which resides there to be accessed by any number of subscribers. Cloudware is most closely aligned with Software as a Service (SaaS), or shared applications that require a company to pay only for their portion of usage on a subscription basis.
Cloud architecture can be used by a company for such applications as storage, connectivity, computing, and security. It provides many advantages. Not only does it support a variety of operating systems (most commonly Windows, Linux, and Solaris) and software vendors, but it costs less, requires less physical space, and it is exceptionally scalable and available. Cloud architecture is a green initiative which employs the best of application virtualization.
Along with the rise of cloud computing will be the necessity to provide a standardized virtual hard drive. At the forefront of this initiative is Google’s GDrive. Rumors are that Google will offer the use of their internet-accessed storage space at no charge, making it highly appealing to the average consumer. Security concerns will prevent it from becoming an immediate option for businesses, however. It remains to be seen how Google will address these concerns and set many an IT department’s (and CEO’s) minds at ease.
As the details get ironed out, rest assured that the wave of the future is already in process and it will include cloud computing as well as the necessity for a hard drive such as the GDrive.