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The idea of cloud computing was introduced by the scientist John
McCarthy. He introduced the term timesharing which would enable
the organisations to share a mainframe computer. But the term
“Cloud Computing” was coined by Prof. Ramnath Chellapa in the
year 1997. In 1999, the first cloud computing services websites were
launched—Salesforce.com and Google.
All the social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace,
Cloud computing
Twitter, Netflix, Skype, and WhatsApp use cloud computing. In fact, all
your personal data, photographs, and other details that you share on these websites are saved on the
Cloud! Google Drive, Amazon Web Service, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., are some examples of cloud
backup services, where you can save and keep your data secure. Alexa and Google Assistant are
natural language cloud-based bots. A bot is a software
program that can do repetitive tasks over the internet.
Examples are chatbots, social bots, Googlebot, etc.
Benefits of using Cloud Computing
Some benefits of cloud computing are:
Cost effective: eliminates the capital cost of maintaining computing infrastructure.
Speed and flexibility: allows faster access of resources from anywhere across the globe.
Ease of storage: it offers unlimited storage space relieving the user from the worries of running out
of data storage space. Users do not have to worry about backups. It allows co-workers to easily
share files and communicate with each other.
Data Security: cloud offers advanced security and reliability features to the user for their data. There
are many authentication, access control and encryption measures which do not allow unauthorised
access to sensitive data.
Risks of using Cloud Computing
Some risks of using cloud computing are:
Your sensitive data might be at risk from hackers.
Some people might face issues like data loss.
The user is always dependent on the Internet. So, if the user is unable to connect to the Internet, he/
she cannot access their files and data.
OneDrive
OneDrive was launched by Microsoft in 2007. It was also known as SkyDrive. OneDrive is a cloud
file storage service. This cloud-based service gives the users a space to store and share documents.
When a person is working on multiple projects, he /she have to deal with loads of files. These files
occupy a lot of disk space on the laptop or desktop. The person might even want to access the images
and documents from his / her mobile, iPad or laptop.
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