Currently in this year 2011 we live in the kingdom of internet. With the distributed computing and client server concept, we know many technological aspects like remote computing and most commonly cloud computing. Cloud computing is the most superior technology prevalent on the internet. The very term cloud computing refers to the services of different computing aspects rather than a software product.
In modern times, we are using various applications of say Google. We use the mail delivery service, the most advanced features of the Google Docs, maps etc. There are also millions of services available online. Have you ever thought that what is the software you should purchase to run those applications on your computer? The answer is no. because it is the beauty of cloud computing that does not require any prerequisites in your machine. Whenever you are using Google Docs, the word processor acting in the background runs in the server of Google. You do not need to download or install it. Whenever playing online games, the same concept is also there.
Another most important feature of the cloud computing over the internet is that the technology is totally arbitrates the physical location dependance of the user. Broadly speaking, to use a cloud computing service over the internet, the user not necessarily should know the actual location of the server. What we do is just take a computer and log in to our accounts in the mail or Google docs and other services whatever we are using. We get connected to the services regardless of our geographical location. So the beauty of the technology is to provide you with a virtual IT cloud that always prevail you to provide your service. A wide range of service can be provided by this cloud computing technology.
Now there are always some consequences behind every cause. As we are getting much more dependent on the cloud computing technology, the validation of different identity, security applications etc are connected to a huge database through the internet. Internet is a huge cloud by itself. As the internet technology uses the aerial medium too via satellite and other communicating appliances, there remains the possibility of an impact of the change of the working environment always by the nature.
Former Additional Commissioner of Income tax and presently a vigorous anti-corruption campaigner Mr. Vishwa Bandhu Gupta stated in an interview about the possible risks in using the cloud computing technology for authenticating and security related applications. As the cloud computing relies on the physical medium, air, the possibility of the disturbances and hence the erroneous results can’t be denied while raining. Considering the internet cloud as the physical cloud, he stated that if the use of such clods done in verifying the identification of one. The system would be dependent on the weather for the checking. As the condition, of the clouds changes due to the change in nature of the environment, the filter created during a rain free cloud can differ with a raining cloud. The consequences may become severe in terms of extremely wrong decisions. The cloud computing aspect has no doubt changed the course of our life, but still we are not at that point to use it for the extremely sensitive cases.
