CIS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Cloud Storage, Salesforce.Com
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An easy definition is that the cloud is simply using computer resources like a hard drive or software that exists on another computer typically connected by the internet. Internal hard drives must be backed up on a regular basis. The contents of a back up must be taken off site to prudently complete the back up. A cloud drive is already off site and connected by the internet. Cloud drives used to be called idrives, short for internet drive. In the past, internet speeds were simply too slow to store and back up data and information like spreadsheets and word documents. *-music industry never lost a case (when suing for illegal downloaded music) *-web bot can get into the cloud to check for illegal music. *-cloud service providers (csp: google microsoft amazon icloud egnyte opendrive dropbox. Since the cloud drive is somewhere on the internet, who else has access to my cloud drive and my computer files? anyone.