Cloud Computing

This is a brief description of what Cloud Computing is all about. 

I have done my best to make the common man/woman understand the idea behind Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing is one of the most talked about concept in recent times. Some of you would be well aware of this terminology and its purpose while others might still be a little vague. This is what its all about:


Cloud Computing, as by definition, concerns with providing software as a service instead of a product. 


To make things simpler, lets take the term 'cloud' to be synonymous with the word 'network'. We all know what a network is in the computing sense; and the biggest ever computer network being the internet. Now the word computing,  is nothing but the simple and menial, and also complex work we do using computers. Word documents, spreadsheets, databases, CRM software, etc.

Instead of having these software's as a product, you will be able to use them directly from a 'cloud'. These software's will be located not on your personal laptop/PC but in a remote server. With  Cloud Computing, you need not carry your laptop or hard disk around. All your data will be store in one location, a distant server, and you will be able to access it from anywhere in the world (with internet connection). The data can be accessed from any device with the facility to connect to the world wide web.


Your Cloud need not be completely private. If you wish you can share certain facets from your cloud with a third party, a person or even a group. This gives you much more resourcefulness and ease with sharing data and/or service. Evidently, your 'Personal Cloud' would be something that is solely accessible by you alone. A personal private space containing your stuff only.


There are a few such services already available and much much more to come. An example of personal cloud storage would be Dropbox, and Ubuntu One. The Chromebook is an excellent example of a device that is majorly dependent on Cloud Computing. 


There are many other deeper and more sophisticated definitions to Cloud Computing, but basically this is the main idea behind it.

Hope you have understood Cloud Computing in its basic sense. For more information visit: Cloud Computing Wikipedia Page

I/O conference tickets Sold Out!

Google's I/O developers conference tickets vanish within 30 minutes!

To be held at :  San Francisco’s Moscone Center from June 27th – 29th, 2012.

I/O Conference official site: https://developers.google.com/events/io/

Tickets for Google's I/O developers conference 2012 were completely sold out within 30 minutes. All of approximately 5000 tickets were hastily grabbed by the hungry crowd eager to attend this years I/O conference. This new record breaks last years' by a whole 30 minutes. It tool 1 hour for the tickets of 2011 I/O conference tickets to disappear.

Ticket Price:  General - $900 ;  Academia- $300 (for Students, Staff , Faculty and Professors)

What is even more surprising is that Google had doubled this years ticket prices and yet it managed to sell completely within half the time it took the previous year. I/O conferences have been conducted since 2008. And now sells three times more the number of tickets than it originally started with. Although, this increase is still not enough to satisfy the crowd.

Google's developer conference, I/O (Input/Output), concerns with everything from the latest mobile technologies, web and Android version releases to Chrome improvement and even Goolge+. Also covers the relative Cloud based systems and services. Rumor has it that the latest version of Android OS, Jelly Bean, is to be introduced in this years I/O conference.

Of the new technologies that are anticipated in I/O conference 2012 include Google's Play Media App store, the so called rival of Apple's iTunes. Last years conference introduced Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, and showcased its new Chromebook laptops.

Held in the same venue as Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference), this years Google I/O developers conference is something which almost every one in the tech world is most eagerly awaits.