Question

Answer the following questions. 1. Briefly explain the term cloud computing. 2. Why is searching on Google seen as an example of cloud computing? 3. How has cloud computing revolutionised email? 4. What kind of documents can be prepared over Google Documents? 5. What does Google have to do for users to be able to use Google Documents?

Answer 1

Ans 1)

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services on demand of user. It delivers not on only application but also storage and processing power, over the internet and one can pay as per use.There is no requirement of direct active mangement by user. It is also referred as data centers available over the internet. It can be broken down into 3 services.

1) Software as a service(SaaS)

2) Platform as a service(PaaS)

3) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Ans2)

Searching on google is seen as an example of cloud computing as in cloud computing the data is centralized from where data is available as and when required and so is in searching the data is available from googles database as and when required.

Ans3)

Cloud computing has revolutionized email... Before if a user had to sent some attachments or very long file or software then he had to use emails to send it part wise mainy times but now with cloud computing everything has been easy. If same data has to be shared to a very large number of users then email had to be sent to those many peoples and if different folders are there than for n people n emails had to be sent but with cloud computing everything is stored at one place and users can access the location for those folders as per users choice.

Ans 4)

Google documents provide a variety of documents to be prepared:

1) Spreadsheets

2) Presentations

3) Documents of the format

---> Comma Separated Value files (.csv)

--->Microsoft Word (.docx)

--->OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet formats (.odt and .ods)

--->PDF(pdf)

--->Rich text format (.rtf)

---> txt,zip,html,epub... The files can saved with these formats.

4) Form

5) Drawing.

Ans 5)

---> To be able to use google documents a user must have Internet Explorer version 6 or greater, Firefox version 1.07 or higher (but not Firefox 3) and Safari 3.1 or higher.

---> Email account with which he can login and can access google docs

---> Agree to Google's terms of service