Dec 11 2008

What’s up with the cloud?

My Data’s up in a cloud, of that fact I may be proud.
You may or may not become wowed , but this info I shall shout aloud. 

I’ve always wanted to able to sit at any computer anywhere, whether at home or on the road, and be able to run my business with no worries about hardware or or software. Over the past few years the internet has grown to the point where this just may be possible for a small business owner. Among tech geeks, running your software over the internet  is known as cloud computing. If you’ve  ever used a web mail program like Hotmail, Google Mail, Yahoo mail, or AOL mail, you’ve already been computing in the “cloud”. 

The idea of being able to run my business without having any software but a web browser and having the ability to run it anywhere that I have in internet connection just plain sounds cool — I don’t have to boot up my laptop, I can just sit down at the computer in the living room that the kids use and do work, I can check something really quickly from work (my day job) at lunch , and I don’t need to take an expensive laptop with me when I travel. — I’m going look into how I can do this, and I figure I’ll take all of you along for the ride. Here’s what I’ve thought of so far to cover:
  1. The what and why of cloud computing
  2. Cloud computing, the good, the bad, and the ugly
  3. What applications do I need ? (I think I already covered this here)
  4. Email in the cloud
  5. Office applications
  6. Accounting applications
  7. Other applications
  8. Having a (backup)plan for a rainy day
  9. All the stuff I haven’t thought of yet.
I suspect that there will also be a storm of  bad weather puns and metaphors as well.
Please leave a comment, tweet me, or email me with subjects of you would like me to cover, or provide any insight you may have, I need all the help I can get. 

 

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Filed in Cloud Computing, Internet, Web, What I Use | Jeff Spiller

  • By admin, January 5, 2009 @ 7:39 pm

    I have inserted a new point 8 based on a user comment

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