"White" Clouds

Look at the sky! It's a bird--a plane? No...it's cloud computing.

I wasn't able to come to class on that Wednesday (Nov 8) since our car broke down (notified to prof. via email of the situation) - however, I did manage to write this post:    

        Shadrach White is the founder of cloudPWR, a software company with design and development experience. Company cloudPWR consist of 11-50 employees, privately held in Tacoma, WA. The company’s proudest product AIRLIFT® powers facilitates transactions between citizens and governments. According to crunchbase.com, “AIRLIFT increases productivity, compliance, the accuracy of information, the privacy of personal data, and end-user satisfaction by eliminating printing, mailing, scanning and faxing.” AIRLIFT connects citizens to governments with information through cloud-based web forms. Airlift is a cloud software solution, in which people rely for access to forms that are up-to-date and agencies must accurately collect, search, and carefully store information. Overall, cloudPWR specializes in “cloud software, enterprise content management, collaboration solutions, and electronic signatures,” according to their LinkedIn page.
It seems that company cloudPWR is an example for cloud computing – where data and programs over the Internet are stored and accessed. In other words, rather than having a computer’s hardware and software store information, services (Internet) would be another way to do the same. Data and programs would be accessed over the Internet (via services) where it will also be synced with other information over the Web. One good example, other than cloudPWR, of cloud computing is Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft Office utilizes a certain form of cloud computing in storing information – offering web-based apps that are in internet-versions. Apple’s popular iCloud is another good example as well, where numbers (phone numbers), mail, calendar would be synchronized or backed-up. Based on these given examples and cloudPWR, cloud computing can still be beneficial for public or private management regardless of drawbacks of having high-speed broadband Internet connection or buying services.

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