On 8th October 2008 I wrote about Google email archiving service extends for up to decade. I don’t know what would be the response of the users and enterprises on this step but recent comment of GNU founder Richard Stallman on cloud computing, which is somewhat similar concept to archiving services, has really raised some questions over the reliability and security of the data. According to him Cloud computing is a trap as quoted in an article at Gaurdian.co.uk. Before telling you about what he said, let me tell you about the concept of cloud computing. Cloud here means “The network of servers” and hence the cloud computing is the supercomputing-level power to user. Cloud Computing is also known as On Demand Computing. The cloud or The Network of Servers are used to manage the distributed database in which the components of program are stored in thousands of computers. Actually Cloud Computing uses the concept of using multiple computers which can be possibly Computers or UNIX workstations, multiple storage devices, and redundant interconnections, to form what gives the user an illusion of a single highly available system. This concept is also called the Cluster Computing. It is used for load balancing the traffic and ensuring the high availability.Moreover, Parallel Processing has enabled the program to run with less time complexity by processing the program instructions dividing them among multiple processors. Hence due to both cluster computing and parallel processing vast processing power is available.
Thus now vendors like IBM, Amazon etc. allow users and enterprises to use the services and storage whenever and wherever they need. Users are charged for these services depending upon the server utilization, processing power used or bandwidth consumed. Google Apps, Maps and Gmail are all based on this the cloud computing. That is why it is likely that one day everyone will rely on the remote access of data. Numbers of organizations are already offering free Web services in the cloud. According to the Richard Stallman using such services is “worse than stupidity”. He said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.
The article also mentioned that the growing number of people storing information on internet-accessible servers rather than on their own machines has become a core part of the rise of Web 2.0 applications. Millions of people now upload personal data such as emails, photographs and, increasingly, their work, to sites owned by companies such as Google. Stallman added that that using such web applications to do your computing makes you lose control. You are getting defenseless as you are you are putting your programs and data in the hands of whoever developed that software. Now being user you have to decide whether you can risk the integrity of your data.
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