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Monday, June 10, 2013

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner

guardian.co.uk, Monday 29 September 2008 09.11 EDT

Richard Stallman, creator of the GNU computer operating system

Richard Stallman on cloud computing: "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign." Photograph: www.stallman.org

The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software.

Cloud computing – where IT power is delivered over the internet as you need it, rather than drawn from a desktop computer – has gained currency in recent years. Large internet and technology companies including Google, Microsoft and Amazon are pushing forward their plans to deliver information and software over the net.

But Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian. Read more...

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Big Data Evolution: From Cave Drawings to the Cloud

Big Data Evolution: From Cave Drawings to the Cloud

By Darryl K. Taft | Posted 2013-02-13

The world is at an inflection point in history when it comes to data-driven insight. Big data, social media, cloud computing and ever-increasing mobility bring about opportunities and challenges in gaining actionable insight. To help put the current challenge in perspective, Coveo, which focuses on unified information access, created a timeline that showcases some of the key milestones of knowledge access and transfer. It takes a look at how information sharing has evolved from drawings and scribes, to mass broadcasting, to ever-increasing amounts of data and digital content. Information creation has gone from cave drawings to where people and machines create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily. That is so much data being created so rapidly that 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, analysts estimate. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals, to name a few. This slide show, taken from Coveo's perspective, looks at information sharing from the early etchings of man through big data. Read more and view slideshow...