The modern miracle of new technology comes at a giant price. Weeks back, while on a family vacation to Disneyland I noticed an event that still leaves me troubled to this day. In front of me, waiting in line for one of the theme park rides, I watched a young man with his new wife on their honeymoon. For the space of nearly 45 minutes the young man focused on his cell phone playing games, in between responding to work related and personal emails.
Mobile devices have become the pinnacle of today's modern technology, giving us access to a feed of constant information. Everywhere we go, work sits in our pockets with its constant buzzing reminders. Everyday work processes can be accessed in our palms thanks to SAAS (software as a service) and cloud technologies. Activities that were once necessary to complete at the work place can now be completed over a phone or tablet device.
While these new technologies are miraculous and beneficial to our every day way of life, it is essential to find daily balance in life and know when enough is enough. Try to unplug from the buzz of technology for a while and look around to see what other great things are missed.
Computers are progressively getting smaller and smaller. In fact if you look back to the very first computer system the ENIAC, it weighed about 30 tons and took up about 1800 square feet of space (many rooms wide). Now that's a big computer! Since then computers have become smaller with each progressive build, and what is most impressive, the small computer systems we enjoy today are faster and more powerful than the massive ENIAC. Is there such thing as too small? Today we enjoy powerful computers in the form of a cell phone, and amazingly we can conduct complete business functions from that cell phone thanks to SAAS (software as a service). These tiny devices reach out to giant servers and databases hosted in the cloud and enable us to do all of our work while sitting on a bus or an airplane. The need for stationary computers and desktops are becoming as obsolete as home telephones.
The term cloud computing has been the biggest buzz in the technology industry for the last five years. Every major corporation has jumped on the cloud band wagon with their own version. Microsoft has Azure, Apple has iCloud, and Amazon uses Rack Space. What do all these unique advantages mean to the end user? Data collocation has been available for a long time. Giant databases, located in various locations throughout the country store end user information and data, alleviating the need to house those things on our own local servers or computer. While these services have been in place for some time the benefit for us is that software companies are begin drinking the coolaidalso. Software is being developed in a way that end users no longer need to download and install software on their own computers. Software can now be accessed right from a web URL on the internet. This process is called SAAS (software as a solution).
Mobile devices have become the pinnacle of today's modern technology, giving us access to a feed of constant information. Everywhere we go, work sits in our pockets with its constant buzzing reminders. Everyday work processes can be accessed in our palms thanks to SAAS (software as a service) and cloud technologies. Activities that were once necessary to complete at the work place can now be completed over a phone or tablet device.
While these new technologies are miraculous and beneficial to our every day way of life, it is essential to find daily balance in life and know when enough is enough. Try to unplug from the buzz of technology for a while and look around to see what other great things are missed.
Computers are progressively getting smaller and smaller. In fact if you look back to the very first computer system the ENIAC, it weighed about 30 tons and took up about 1800 square feet of space (many rooms wide). Now that's a big computer! Since then computers have become smaller with each progressive build, and what is most impressive, the small computer systems we enjoy today are faster and more powerful than the massive ENIAC. Is there such thing as too small? Today we enjoy powerful computers in the form of a cell phone, and amazingly we can conduct complete business functions from that cell phone thanks to SAAS (software as a service). These tiny devices reach out to giant servers and databases hosted in the cloud and enable us to do all of our work while sitting on a bus or an airplane. The need for stationary computers and desktops are becoming as obsolete as home telephones.
The term cloud computing has been the biggest buzz in the technology industry for the last five years. Every major corporation has jumped on the cloud band wagon with their own version. Microsoft has Azure, Apple has iCloud, and Amazon uses Rack Space. What do all these unique advantages mean to the end user? Data collocation has been available for a long time. Giant databases, located in various locations throughout the country store end user information and data, alleviating the need to house those things on our own local servers or computer. While these services have been in place for some time the benefit for us is that software companies are begin drinking the coolaidalso. Software is being developed in a way that end users no longer need to download and install software on their own computers. Software can now be accessed right from a web URL on the internet. This process is called SAAS (software as a solution).
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