Sunday, April 26, 2009

Thing 45 - Cloud Computing

What do you see as the advantages of joining “the cloud” by using a Web OS?
It's easy to see the advantages of Web OS:
Access to information anywhere at anytime, whether your working at home or on vacation your information is at your fingertips.

Disadvantages?
You have limited gigabytes unless your willing to pay extra each month.
What if the company goes defunct what happens to your data?

Do you currently do any computing in “the cloud” (i.e. GoogleDocs, Zoho, etc)? What do you think? Has it helped your productivity?
We've experimented with GoogleDocs to register kids for the summer reading program because we have access to the spreadsheet from several circulation terminals at the same time. It has helped productivity but we have been limited to how many people on staff have access at one time.

What other cloud applications are you using or planning to investigate?
I'm experimenting more with 'SOS Online Backup' recommended in the article by PC Magazine. I'll see if there are advantages to using this at work.

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