Google Docs guy talks cloud computing at Brookings
Thursday, January 21, 2010
If you've ever posted a video on YouTube, shared a photo through Flickr, or used web-based e-mail service, you're a cloud computing user. As more computing shifts from the desktop to the Internet "cloud," what do policymakers need to know about the cloud? That question and many more were the topic of a Brookings Institution talk yesterday on cloud computing (full audio here).
Google's Jonathan Rochelle, Group Product Manager for Google Docs, was on the panel and took a minute afterward to break it down:
The risks of "desktop computing" aren't well understood? First of all, compared to what? To cloud computing? (Which is just a fancy name for client server model) Cloud computing is what's not adequately understood here, not native applications.
ReplyDeleteI may be starting to use client server model apps alot more now because of the Data Liberation Front http://www.dataliberation.org/ which is helping make sure I'll be able to keep practical ownership of my own stuff if/when I decide to leave the client server model again. This is one thing that makes me trust it alot more - a minimized exit cost/hassle.