Friday, May 12, 2017



Part (2)

What is cloud computing?

Basically, cloud computing is a place where you store and save your data. It is is not on your local hard drive, but you have access to it at any time from any device or any different location. To give an example for the cloud computing, any email you send or receive does not take space on your device, it is stored on the email savers or providers. As mentioned before, due to the cloud computing these emails can be accessed from any device: PC, smartphone, or laptop from any location and at any time. However, data still needs to be stored physically on a server or a device somewhere. Companies who offer you that kind of storage services owns huge warehouse servers that continue to work 24/7 in order to store your data, that is called server farms.


So where is my data going?? And who has access to it besides me??

Your data is safe and stored in places you will never know where precisely. It all depends on the company offering that storing service, some providers have servers in the US, others have it in Chine, the UK or any other location in the world to reduce the costs. To talk about who has access to your data, those companies have ensured that you are the only person having access to your data. However, each person should think more about security and safeguards around their data when it comes to storing important data even though it is still not 100% safe. After saying that, it is fair to say that even in these servers, your data has the chance of being destroyed, failed, deleted or hacked just like if it was stored on your own computer or hard drive.


Sources:

http://blog.krollontrack.co.uk/top-tips/where-on-earth-is-cloud-data-actually-stored/

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