After a long test, last week, Microsoft CEO Ballmer officially released Office 365 Cloud computing Services. If the Chobs at Apple's Global developers ' conference in early June icloud the cloud technology that has been sneaking around for years into the mainstream, one night, then Microsoft's new blockbuster will remind us to look at the "cloud" and explore its infinite capabilities.
I do not know which one of the geeks Flash, for the technology to take out the "cloud" such a romantic name. The people who are accustomed to the blunt it rhetoric are not sure how to understand the meaning of cloud technology. In short, "cloud" is a pool of computing resources that is formed after the unified management and dispatch of computing resources connected to the network. In the "Cloud" world, the powerful computer will no longer be important, because the mission of your terminal is only to send instructions and accept data through the network, other things such as complex calculation, huge storage and other troublesome matters to the remote network of the powerful power "cloud" to achieve it! In Mr Jobs's words: "The personal computer is simplistic, it will be a machine in the future, and cloud services will be the core of digital life, the end of the era of PC computing as the core!" ”
In fact, as early as 2006, Google released the "Google 101 plan", formally proposed the "cloud" concept and theory. Subsequently, Intel, IBM, Amazon and other companies have joined the Cloud world. From the day of birth, cloud computing is destined to bring a revolution in the digital world, more people in the industry called it after the PC, the Internet, the third wave of information technology.
Indeed, geeks are not free to talk big. Cloud apps do bring us a whole new digital lifestyle. In addition to the opening, it frees terminal devices, allowing lightweight tablets and even smartphones to do many complex tasks with the help of "cloud" power. It also greatly improves the security of data storage. Before the advent of cloud technology, if the computer is lost or hardware damage will let your data leak or lost, think of the "Yan Zhao Door" sad lesson. and using cloud technology, your data will be properly kept in the "cloud", not only to avoid inadvertent loss, but also to easily at any time through multiple devices to find your stored information.
The cloud brings you more free storage and sharing. At work, the cloud-computing version of Office allows you to work almost anywhere, using mobile devices over the Web to access important documents that you edit while you are in the company, or to easily schedule meetings with a shared calendar, or even use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with your colleagues remotely. When you are free, you can store digital music in the cloud, which not only intelligently helps you find more music to recommend your favorite style, but also allows you to share your treasures with your friends. According to foreign media reports, future cloud storage will also allow you to feel unmatched gaming experience, so that you can play the game record anywhere, the end of the player headaches game progress lost and restored.
In addition, in the network security, input method and other daily applications, cloud technology can also provide a more humane, more perfect service. In the clouds, together wonderful is just the beginning, let us start, to experience those unknown good!
Storage sharing
The most basic and extensive application of "cloud" is storage and sharing, can be documents, music, pictures, videos, and even address books, text messages, call records and other content stored in the cloud server, anywhere in different mobile phones, tablets, laptops and other devices free use, sharing, and completely farewell to the data line and trouble copying and pasting.
Apple icloud
It's not just a cloud drive, it gives you easy access to everything you have on your Apple device, and automatically synchronizes files, pictures, music, calendars, messages, contacts, and folders on all devices, and, more intimately, automatically synchronizes changes to all Apple devices and backs up old files after you modify the files.
You can choose the free 5G storage space, or you can spend 24.99 dollars a year on the itunes Match service, so that you can listen to the music stored in the Apple Cloud Server from any Apple device.
Amazon Cloud Drive
Earlier, Amazon released cloud-based online storage services and web-based music players, known as Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud player. It lets you play the music you buy or access photos, videos, documents, and other data files in your computer, smartphone, and Android tablet computer. It provides up to 5GB of free storage space, and can also pay an annual fee to expand storage capacity. The caveat is that the service is not available on Apple's iphone.
Acer clear.fi
Acer has installed clear.fi applications in the newly launched A500, W500 tablet and all laptops that carry WIN7 systems. It is an easy to create a home entertainment sharing platform software, thoroughly solved the equipment discovery, equipment interconnection, file search and file classification storage and a series of problems.
Take the A500 tablet as an example, not only can you play multimedia files in a connected local device, you can also enjoy multimedia content through cloud computing, and find and play video and music in the cloud. A500 's clear.fi can also integrate local files and public cloud Media Library files according to your preferences, displayed in a unified media library, greatly reducing the difficulty of calling multimedia files, simplifying the operation, you only need to click the file to play it.
ASUS MyCloud
The cloud storage Service MyCloud, pre-installed in Asus ' newest deformable flat eee TF101, has enhanced the experience of stand-alone operations to network roaming. It includes mycontent, MyDesktop, @Vibe three parts, mycontent can be stored in an unlimited number of files to upload the cloud, so that your data storage space more reliable and secure; MyDesktop can easily find folders or applications, Remote Desktop access and control, for mobile internet life is very practical, asus@vibe rich resources, to provide best-selling books, newspapers, fashion magazine, as well as music, radio and other rich content.
Office software
The service that moved the various Office applications to the cloud began to rise, and before Microsoft, Google launched a customized business service for enterprise-class users, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and so on, to provide you with a more comfortable working experience on a variety of operating systems and devices.
Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft's cloud office, the traditional overlord of Office software, is compatible with most browsers, smartphones and desktop applications. You can access e-mail, documents, contacts, and calendars from any location, keep abreast of the latest information, have enterprise-class security and reliability, and can provide tailored IT control and efficiency to your unique needs. This is a fee-based application with a small business version and an enterprise version of two options, with a monthly cost of 6 dollars per user for small businesses and 2 dollars a month for midsize and large enterprises and government agencies.
Security
Security is widely used in the field of cloud applications, many manufacturers have launched a "cloud security" services. To be reminded, because cloud applications must be based on the network implementation, so a single cloud protection does not fully guarantee the computer security, it is best to choose the integration of cloud technology and comprehensive local protection of the composite security system in order to be safe in any case.
Kaspersky Security Forces 2012
Cloud protection system not only can defend to the known threat, for unknown threat can also be protected, using Kaspersky unique "cloud", Kabbah 2012 in 40 seconds to respond to new threats. More "cloud" Protection features: Users can view the credibility of potentially threatening files through file advisor with a single mouse click. The Web site Advisor will help users determine if the Web site is secure through the latest information on online resources in the security cloud.
Cloud Music
In the cloud music, you can not only in the rich digital music library to find favorite songs online, but also at any time and friends recommend each other to share. More through the PC, mobile phones, Pad, audio, car and other terminals synchronous listening. International giants such as Apple, Amazon, Google and Sony and some domestic companies have launched their own music cloud storage services.
Dom Music Cloud
Dom is the first professional service provider of digital music featuring music cloud in China, sync the songs from the "My Favorites" and "Customize" lists in the mobile phone, PC client and the multi-meter music website to the server, or back to the phone from the server, keep your music list permanently saved and never lost. Whether at home, school, office, or café, fast food, or in the suburbs, can listen to their favorite songs anytime, anywhere to bring you a one-stop music enjoyment.
Input
The main feature of cloud input is that there is no need to install, as long as the network can be used, compatibility and ease of use is stronger. With the common input method will be installed in the local computer thesaurus, cloud Input method of the thesaurus placed in a powerful dedicated server, the theoretical lexicon and language model library is infinitely large, so the accuracy rate is higher. In addition, it can remember the user's input habits.
Google Cloud Input Method
With Google Cloud Input method, you can directly in the site input box input Chinese, and do not need to open the client input method every time. No matter where you are, as long as you choose "Chinese" (ie Chinese) in the leftmost language Pull-down menu, you can use the online Chinese pinyin input method.
In addition, Google translation can also use the Chinese cloud input method, as long as the source language is selected as "Chinese", and the "allow input of Latin character Pinyin" below the input box is selected, it is easy to enter Chinese pinyin through transliteration and translate the powerful features of Google translation into the language you need.
Sogou Cloud Input Method
The use of cloud computing technology online Input method, is cross-platform, installation-free, can be used directly in the input method. The most obvious difference with the general input method is that it relies solely on the server operation and has a more powerful language model and thesaurus, which can greatly improve the input accuracy rate, especially the long sentence input accuracy. At present, Sogou cloud Input method can only be used on Web pages. As long as you can access the Internet, you can input, and greatly improve the accuracy of input.