{"id":1701,"date":"2012-08-15T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2019-08-03T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T03:45:18","slug":"cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2012\/08\/cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/magnifying-glass-_k6811192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1743\" title=\"Cloud Services\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/magnifying-glass-_k6811192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/magnifying-glass-_k6811192.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/magnifying-glass-_k6811192-188x154.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is this new fangled cloud services? Nothing new I will tell you, its been around since the start of computer networks, just in various incarnations.<\/p>\n<p>Remember dial-up bulletin board service or BBS?\u00a0 You dial up to a particular BBS to play games, chat and download &#8216;free&#8217; software, usually games etc.\u00a0 All this stuff is done &#8216;online&#8217; by another computer with a bunch of phone lines somewhere.\u00a0 Fast forward a few years to 1996 where <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hotmail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two guys<\/a> decided to a provide a free email to anyone! All you need is a web browser, usually Internet Explorer or Netscape, you get your mail on any computer.\u00a0 This mail service is powered in the background by a bunch of servers.<\/p>\n<p>Later on others jumped in, eg Yahoo etc.\u00a0 These websites at that time were called web portals.\u00a0 They provide Software running somewhere a service to you.\u00a0 We now call this Cloud services.\u00a0 A new technology, virtualization, made computer hardware virtual.\u00a0 Soon another service called Infrastructure As A Service. You don&#8217;t need to buy real servers, just virtual servers on the Internet.\u00a0 You can then remote desktop in to configure and install.\u00a0 This is no different from the computer room down the hall or in a co-located data center in another country.\u00a0 It just not right there next to you.<\/p>\n<p>Soon other forms of services started, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_docs\">file storage<\/a>, photo storage where you can share your holiday pics and print them (at the same time killing Kodak) etc.<\/p>\n<p>It comes to a point, you have to decide, why store anything on your hard drive?\u00a0 After three hard disk crashes, I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 But remember in IT, backup is king.\u00a0 Even Cloud Services screw up too. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-20037554-93.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/fasterforward\/2011\/01\/hotmails_missing-messages_myst.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Sidekick_data_loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/04\/29\/0254215\/amazon-ec2-crash-caused-data-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember in the end it is somebody else&#8217;s servers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Cloud Services in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/innovation_explanations\/article\/chris_dotson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this new fangled cloud services? Nothing new I will tell you, its been around since the start of computer networks, just in various incarnations. Remember dial-up bulletin board service or BBS?\u00a0 You dial up to a particular BBS&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,499],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-virtualization","tag-aws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}