That Man About The Cloud Reuven Cohen in his Elasticator blog reports that interest in cloud computing has soared by 3,233 per cent since 2007. OK, now the cynical among us could rightfully argue that this is hardly surprising because prior to 2007 the term cloud computing the technology that drove it was largely unknown. However, such a phenomenal increase is hard to ignore and Reuven explains how he looked at and interpreted the trends.
He writes: “If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you’ll know I enjoy looking at trends. A particularly good analytics tool is found at Google’s Insights for Search Tool. The site analyzes a portion of worldwide Google web searches from all Google domains to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you’ve entered, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. The site also allows the underlying characteristics of the data sets to be compared, for example against a broader industry. In our case, I compared Cloud Computing and a few other related terms against the broader “Computers & Electronics” industry to how much interest there was for cloud computing.”
What is fascinating is that if you follow Reuven’s link that the top five countries showing an interest are in the Far East – India, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. India doesn’t surprise me because some of the most innovative services in this sector come out from there but even Malaysia is further down the top ten chart.
From a European point of view Ireland leads the way with no other European country appearing in the top ten. Now that is worrying.
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The cloud is the future, but I'm worried about data security.
I think security is not a big as big a problem as some people fear. What concerns me is what happens when the net shuts down. I know it was designed to operate independently so if one part crashes the rest continues, but I would not be surprised if the super powers cannot turn great swathes of it off!
Another thing that has contributed hugely is the ease of access to the cloud. Even back in '07, you often needed to use FTP to use it. Now with products like Dropbox, people don't even have to think about it.
Yup, couch potato computing has a lot going for it
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