YatPundit’s Pub 17-April-2019 Tech Wednesday in the Cloud

YatPundit’s Pub 17-April-2019 Tech Wednesday in the Cloud

YatPundit’s Pub 17-April-2019 Tech Wednesday in the Cloud

Enterprise Storage in a data center

Back in the “pre-World Wide Web” days, we used to have a small, informal group of programmers, sysadmins, BBS sysops, and other nerds who got together occasionally for pizza and beer. We hung out at Godfather’s Pizza, out on Veterans Blvd. The pizza was OK, and they had a big back area. We pushed a few tables together an talked tech. Occasionally, someone would present a topic. Most of the time, it was just beer and casual talk.

So, YatPundit’s Pub 17-April-2019 invokes the spirit of those gatherings! We’ll have a topic or three, some covering Enterprise Computing, some Personal Computing.

Enterprie Cloud

The term “the cloud” focuses on specific needs of businesses and individuals. While we do have definitions, It’s still confusing to some. We work in the Enterprise Cloud with more confidence in 2019 than a few years ago. It’s easy to go to “the cloud.” Companies exercise care what goes up there, though. Public cloud options work for some. Others require more security and reliability. It’s one thing to say, “our stuff lives on Amazon Web Services.” It’s another to maintain business continuity and compliance with regulators while doing so. Some enterprises opt for a “private cloud” as a compromise. Public or Private, either way, the data physically resides somewhere, on hard drives. So, the folks I teach make that happen.

Personal Cloud

Things change at the personal level. Individuals worry less about government compliance. We focus on maintaining backups. Folks want solid copies of their data from Microsoft Office and other personal tools. We want our photos, videos, recordings, and other stuff from their phones stored off the device. If the phone is stolen or ruined, the data lives elsewhere.

That’s not the full story. So, your data may be backed up away from your phone, but can you easily recover it? Things to think about and plan for.

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