Considering this is my first post I thought I would write about a product that I found to be extremely interesting and possibly useful. The concept of cloud computing is the concept that the internet (or the cloud) contains all of your information in one centralized source. G.ho.st provides a service that allows users to create a virtual computer or desktop within any internet browser. As a user, I am constantly on my desktop PC, Blackberry and Asus netbook. The use of these three products are used on a constant basis and are normally used for similar interests. The promising features of this website is the benefit of having 15gb of storage capacity for free that allows you to store any type of files that you wish along with the ability to attach several different widgets and addons. When I first created my account, I was able to set up my desktop on my PC with no problems. Other than a slow upload rate, it was everything that the website described it to be. The following day I tried the site on a shared PC on the UGA Campus and the desktop was the same as when I left it previously. I accessed the site from my phone on their mobile site, G.ho.st/m. The site was able to pull up all of my information with no problems and it worked extremely well. When I tried to access the site from my netbook the java applet that they have running for the virtual desktop to run was distorted and unable to be used or changed. This could be from the display requirements from the applet. Overall the operation and concept of the site are great ideas and very useful. Though the the site needs to work out a few bugs I feel that a free service that runs on service advertisement would be an excelent way to make college easier.Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Gh.o.st Cloud Computing Software
Considering this is my first post I thought I would write about a product that I found to be extremely interesting and possibly useful. The concept of cloud computing is the concept that the internet (or the cloud) contains all of your information in one centralized source. G.ho.st provides a service that allows users to create a virtual computer or desktop within any internet browser. As a user, I am constantly on my desktop PC, Blackberry and Asus netbook. The use of these three products are used on a constant basis and are normally used for similar interests. The promising features of this website is the benefit of having 15gb of storage capacity for free that allows you to store any type of files that you wish along with the ability to attach several different widgets and addons. When I first created my account, I was able to set up my desktop on my PC with no problems. Other than a slow upload rate, it was everything that the website described it to be. The following day I tried the site on a shared PC on the UGA Campus and the desktop was the same as when I left it previously. I accessed the site from my phone on their mobile site, G.ho.st/m. The site was able to pull up all of my information with no problems and it worked extremely well. When I tried to access the site from my netbook the java applet that they have running for the virtual desktop to run was distorted and unable to be used or changed. This could be from the display requirements from the applet. Overall the operation and concept of the site are great ideas and very useful. Though the the site needs to work out a few bugs I feel that a free service that runs on service advertisement would be an excelent way to make college easier.
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But isn't this a lot like SkyNet? The evil all encompassing super computer network that took control over all computing machines, launched nuclear warheads across the earth killing millions, manufactured the T-1 Terminator prototype and consequently built exponentially more powerful and technologically advanced super robotic organism that eventually were sent back in time to terminate those responisble for its eventual demise? Won't this "G.ho.st" thing be just like that?
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