ADM 2372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Amazon S3, Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2372
• Professor: James Bowen

Document Summary

> in the early 1900s, factories used to generate their own electricity, but as soon as the electric grid was introduced, factories immediately plugged into it. > the same thing is happening with cloud computing, organizations are getting rid of their in-house data centres and connecting to the cloud. > users have no time to learn how to manage their it infrastructure - they just want it to work. > users are overwhelmed with viruses, spyware, etc. > users have discovered the convenience of the software as a service (saas) model such as web- based email - no worry about installing, upgrading, maintaining, and securing the software. > users have grown accustomed to mobility (access data from anywhere, on any device) and collaboration. > utilization of traditional data centres is very low. > loss of control (organization loses control over its computing) > privacy (will the vendor protect the privacy of the data?)