Introduction to Cloud Computing What is cloud? Use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network Why cloud computing? Device and location independency Elasticity and scalability Security Standardized interfaces Cost How it is used? Cloud computing can be achieved through 3 services  SAAS  IAAS  PAAS

Google Drive Google Drive Keep Everything.. Share Everything.. Google What is Google Drive??? Google File storage and synchronization service by Google Cloud storage service - moving everyone's work to the cloud Google Released on April 24, Home of Google Docs Features Online collaboration Store everything safely and access it anywhere Insanely fast Powerful group work tool Effective version control Good integration with other Google services Google Google Drive is available for Windows & Mac Android devices

Google Docs originated from two separate products, Writely and Google Spreadsheets. Word - Writely was a web-based word processing application created by Upstartle Spreadsheets - XL2Web product - 2Web Technologies in Google Labs February Google Docs was made available to Google Apps users March 7, DocVerse - an online document collaboration company, was acquired by Google -allows multiple user online collaboration on Microsoft Office compatible document September 29, 2011, Google Docs supports offline viewing April 24, 2012, Google Launched Google Drive

Services integrated with Google Drive Google Cloud Connect - acts as a bridge between Google Docs (Google Drive) and Microsoft Office documents AutoCad WS – Creative Tools – Open AutoCAD files (dwg) from Google Drive Desmos – Productivity – An HTML5 social graphing calculator. Create and store graphs in Google Drive. DocuSign – Productivity – Get signatures on documents stored in Google Drive and save signed documents back to Drive. Floorplanner – Creative Tools – Create and edit floorplans from your browser. Render floorplans as 3D models and save images back to Google Drive Lucidchart – Productivity – Online diagramming and flowchart tool Pixlr Editor & Pixlr Express – Creative Tools – Open and edit images from Google Drive from your browser Pixorial – Video – Open and share media files, edit videos, and share projects from Google Drive

Pros & Cons of Google Drive Uses of Google Drive  5GB of storage for free  Replacing the USB thumb drive stuffed into your backpack or purse  Drive can open up to 30 kinds of files  Multiple users can make edits to the same files at the same time  Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology Advantages of Google Drive  Centralized management.  Security  Data Replication  Uptime  Support Disadvantages of Google Drive  Conversion of files is complex  Cannot be used with multiple Google accounts  Offline working is not possible

Other similar Cloud Services There are many other cloud services which act like Google drive. Dropbox/Skydrive/Sugar sync/iCloud Dropbox:  Storage service - focuses on synchronization and sharing  Officially launched at 2008  It supports revision history. Skydrive:  File hosting service - Allows users to upload and sync files to a cloud storage and then access them from a Web browser or their local device.

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Future of Cloud Change to the ways in which we interact with computers – Device independency Software floats away from hardware Unlimited Storage Cloud computing is scaling investment value Growing popularity for cloud-centric design Cloud services optimized for mobile Security “Cloud computing is the final means by which computing becomes invisible”