I've watched recently on TV about "Cloud computation". Upon looking it up in some software magazines, I realized that I was in the "Cloud" all the time now, not necessarily knowing the term. As early a 2002, I have backed up all my files in a remote webHD via my computer....
United News/Richard C T Lee/Chi Nan, Hsing Hua, Providence University Honor Professor, Hsin Chu City, Nov 7, 2009
I've watched recently on TV about "Cloud computation". Upon looking it up in some software magazines, I realized that I was in the "Cloud" all the time now, not necessarily knowing the term. As early a 2002, I have backed up all my files in a remote webHD via my computer....
One of my outstanding students has developed a web application, Cyberhood systems. I use it now to manage my files in WebHD it provides. All my dissertation and my students' paper and all the work in progress, too. My collaboration with my students and collegues are all done using version control tracking system in Cyberhood....
The WebHD keeps all my students' dissertation and my presentations slides. Any modification or rewrite will also be kept using Version Control Tracking. It keeps all the versions of a file no matter hom many versions by how many hands. When an accident did happen the most recent change didn't get saved, there would always a previous version to go back to.
Although I have to deal with all kinds of information almost every day, and I travel all around the world, I never carry a computer with me. As long as I have Internet access to where I am going to, I retrieve my files from there and prep my speech like so. Before Cyberhood, I used to mail in my video files for my lectures. Now I have WebHD that saves me the trouble of emailing.
Many enterprises will surely be benefited by adapting Cyberhood systems. Business owners who are in business travel can remotely manage their business at home.
Frankly, while all of a sudden everyone is talking about cloud computing, it seems this shoud be a foreign idea. I am more worried that our government may overlook Cyberhood and seek cooperation with tech companies from another country. We should be ambitious enough to develop our own software in the "Cloud", applying the most current cloud computation technology. We will definitely grow better with our government subsidy.
United News Nov 7, 2009
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