Ignorance of Decades

 

I always wondered when science will reach the point when humans no longer understand what’s going on. I’m not talking about ‘how things work’ question. For instance, Edison gave us electricity and Bell gave us the telephone. We didn’t know how they worked but we knew how to use them.  So why doesn’t this idea work with cloud computing too? It’s always interesting to see how we adopted new things in our life with or without any knowledge of it.

 

SMBs in the cloud

More and more small and medium-sized companies are using cloud-based services, but usually only apply these ideas in fundamental processes. Companies often organize email or share documents, but only 5 percent of them actually say that SMBs are cloud base.  

 

The latest Microsoft’s survey results show what services are use in cloud.  The most common home electronic service - mail is the most common (57%), but also popular is sharing of documents (42%), instant messaging, VoIP (31-31%) and cloud storage at (23%) as well.  Only (9%) of Internet office suites - such as Office 365 or GoogleDocs - make use of the cloud services.

 

 

 

Not so long ago, a company became a pioneer of the industry when they took advantage of the cloud. Over the past 12 months – according to Microsoft’s report - Office 365 services have tripled annual revenue. But the fact is that almost all SMBs companies have internet access, yet they don’t know they have been using the cloud.

Funny if you think about it. In the old days – we didn’t turn on the lights and say "I’m not using electricity", So today why do we say – "I don’t use the  cloud"  although I'm on the internet. Can we use ignorance as an excuse?

Who’s to blame?

 

Future? Unemployment? Pictures? Cloud? How does all this things come together? 

Do you want to find a job? It’s not easy these days. Do you use social network?  Since we post a bunch of pictures of our moments in life and what we want to share with our friends. But how is this activity affecting our future? Can the cloud be blamed for that? Nope. The answer is the users and their bad habits...and of course this requires knowledge of the cloud.

Reckless (Thoughtless) Youth

 Eric E. Schmidt - served as the CEO of Google until 2011 – He drew younger generation’s attention to the danger of posting pictures on Facebook. He warned them not to share too many personal events of themselves. He said –that the older generation made their mistakes, but there mistakes didn’t stay on the internet too long, so it was easy to move on. Teens today might say- who cares? It’s yesterday news now…Well that’s not quite true anymore!

Behind the scenes

To store our pictures on the cloud is fast and simple. It happens in real time and we enjoy this fact. But do we know what happens behind the scenes?

 

 

When you take that picture and posted on your social media site many copies have been made to be available to your friends. So it means your picture landed on many computers any many data warehouses which can be uploaded in anytime. And these computers are all connected together. So it means that your picture gets replicated many different times just to get shared. From that one photo your social sites make many copy to ensure that it gets shared. That’s called the reliability of cloud. As you know, it needs to be reliable.. There when you want it.

Do you feel the danger yet?

Worst floods of all time is here in Budapest

‘Europe's second longest river is set to hit unprecedented levels in the capital Budapest in the next few days.’ – According to BBC news.  Yup. Danube is going to reach record levels this weekend in Budapest. Although it happens every year - the banks of river are closed for a couple of week – this time it can be worst of all time.

‘Central Europe's worst river floods in over a decade have already devastated large areas and forced mass evacuations in parts of Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic. Budapest was expected to be worst hit on Monday, with forecasters predicting the river will rise to as high as 9 meters (29.5 ft) higher than the last record set in 2006.’ – According to CNN.

In Hungary most of our news is about evacuations and damage. All local transportation is blocked, and roads to the capital are blocked. The Hungarian Prime minister spent the night at a military barrack in the flooded city of Győr. He’s been trying to calm the nation as it becomes a national disaster. He said everything is under control and military is ready to help with the worst. Interesting that he also denied recent news about leaking dams.

Personally I can say is that every minute another new record has been reached and what is the first time was shocking now it just becoming scary.

Interestingly enough that many communities including Gypsies who never contribute to anything are volunteering to help sandbag our dams.

So sad, that only disasters – like this – can bring the nation together.

Expectations and letdowns

 June is here, summer is late. It’s cold so I turned the heating on, while I wait for the warm weather. Sunny days should be come soon although weather forecast said we have to wait for a while. Things have not turned out the way we expected and we are upset.  I can honestly say this is the way I feel with the latest version of Android 5.0 so far.

At the Google I/O event ‘the big thing’ hasn’t come forth yet. Of course I’m talking about Key Lime Pie.  What happened? Well, since it’s a developer event they focused on developers quite a bit.

Google opened the event with a giants three hour long keynote where the company announced lots of new stuff and gave many letdowns too. No KLP on the phone side, no Nexus  7 on the tablet side. What they did have is a new streaming music service, and a unified chat service. They also tried to optimize the use of Google glass and they focused more on Chrome this time. What else? An update to Google Maps. Yes, this is in Hungary as well.

So no announcement of  a new version of Android but Google said it’s coming later this year. Just like our summer right? I guess not much to do only look forward too just bunch of promises.  Let’s put it that way G-team must be working on something great so better wait for it patiently. It might worth it.

But I have Hungarian news for you! Mark Zuckerberg spent a day in Budapest. Wow! He liked the city and the people, the only thing is that he was cold too.