Yesterday there was a brief outage of Gmail. It was apparent (mainly through Twitter), that the fault lay directly with Gmail. The problem for me lasted about 2 hours until eventually Gmail sputtered back into life churning millions of emails hourly.

I have often viewed Gmail and other Google services as a form of Cloud Computing, and Cloud Computing in my opinion is a natural evolution of computers connected to the internet. It makes sense – perfect sense.

When you live in a country where an uncapped 4MB line costs more than the repayments of a small car, land cables are often stolen and wireless internet alternatives come across as amateurish is cloud computing a realistic goal.

I am not entirely sure how Microsoft would run an OS over the air, but I imagine a fair bit of downloading would be required. Where would my files be kept? Online? How would a service pack work.

What happens when my core cloud computing OS fails because some cleaner, in some office, in some country unplugged the red plug. Then what?

I don’t know if this is evidence of a younger generation taking hold, or the fact that there are still so many problems with cloud computing.

Imagine. You hold up an entire corporation because you lock them out their own system. Demand cyber-rent?

I don’t know. Hardware… Software all in the same room seems more tangible and reliable then that cloud in the sky already taking so much of my time as it is
I think we will all naturally move toward cloud computing as it evolves and becomes a common entity, however I still think there are a multitude of problems, costs and connectivity contingencies that need to be sorted out first, before we are hailed into a new era.