The world spins in full circle. Before I was born, Bill Gates and others played with their mainframes till personal computers came onto the scene, mainframes were fast forgotten, but now people are talking about how cloud computing makes personal computers known as desktops look like the dinosaurs. How wrong can these folks be? I think personal computers are going to be more important as time progresses even though cloud computing may be in the headlines more. Cloud computing has its strengths, but it does have a lot of weaknesses also. In my opinion, current security measures that are put in place to secure cloud computing are not up to the tasks in protecting cloud computing users. Cloud computing is where everyone meets everyone, everyone’s data keep along side everyone else data, and so the potential for great destruction is there.
Ain’t cloud computing looks somewhat like the concept of a mainframe? We can also boldly say Internet is a cloud computing itself, and Internet is one excellent example of how ineffective security can be. On the contrast, personal desktops will never go out of fashion, because average people do need something local, cannot be outsourced, to do things such as keeping private files, unhook the Internet when there is no need to connect to the rest of the world (data can be safer), things can be fast and smooth as long a powerful machine is chugging fine and not have to worry about a gazillion of people who are also in the same cloud computing environment that may slow everyone else down, and gazillion more reasons that personal computers will always be popular as these are so affordable nowadays. In fact, I fear cloud computing is overrated, and its future maybe just a blip within the cloud of technologies.
Vinh Nguyen
