Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here

The other day I wrote an arti­cle in which I briefly dis­cussed cloud com­put­ing and how I accom­plish it in my life. I wanted to start a new series called “Liv­ing in the Clouds” which goes over the func­tions that you can do to migrate over to a cloud com­put­ing setup yourself.

First we need to define what is cloud com­put­ing?  Cloud com­put­ing is plac­ing and manip­u­lat­ing on the Inter­net.  While part of this is cloud stor­age, where you store your data online so you can access it any­where, the other part is being able to use and manip­u­late your data any­where.   Whether this is from your home com­puter, your work com­puter, or any other device you have access to an inter­net con­nec­tion with a browser, this is com­put­ing in the clouds.

I wanted to out­line what I’m try­ing to accom­plish with this series.   What I want to do is go beyond the nor­mal here is a cloud ser­vice, isn’t it shiny?  You can get that form any­where.   What I want to work through in each sec­tion of this series is as follows:

Data Types: What type of data can you store or manip­u­late and what are the best ser­vices for that.

Data Secu­rity: How can you trust your data and the providers you are using.  How can you min­i­mize the effect of data leakage.

Data Redun­dancy:  This includes redun­dant ser­vices with the same data, how to make your data portable, and how to back this data up.

Data Acces­si­bil­ity:  What devices and items other then web browsers can you manip­u­late your data with, what API’s are available.

I’m tak­ing all of this from a per­spec­tive of what do I use and how do I use it.   I want to let you know what works for me instead of dove­tail­ing in a goo goo gah gah review over some­thing new and excit­ing.   If I don’t use it to a decent extent I will let you know.   I will include spec­u­la­tion and the­ory some­times, but when I do I will alert you to such.

Hope­fully this is a series you will enjoy.