CLOUD COMPUTING AND HOW TO USE IT

COMPILED BY HOWIE BAUM

THE CLOUDIn 2018, cloud computing went mainstream. Virtually

all organizations - 96 percent, use it in one way or another

WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?Cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of on your computer's hard drive and you can get your information anywhere.

It allows users to use software programs, without having to pay for and find a place for the hardware at home or where they work.

The services are delivered and used over the Internet and are paid for by the cloud customer on an as-needed or pay-per-use business model.

The cloud is just a metaphor for the Internet, which uses high speed computer servers to store and move information.

Do you Use the Cloud?

If you watch videos on YouTube, read Kindle books, Tweet on Twitter, go to Amazon to buy things, use Facebook, or go to any of these websites, you are using the Cloud !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu4FYSFeWqg

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE CLOUD

● The global public cloud computing market is set to exceed $330 billion in 2020.

● Providing data access from anywhere is the top reason for cloud adoption.

● Organizations’ average yearly cloud budget was $2.2 million in 2018.

● About a third of companies’ IT budget goes to cloud services.

Who are the main companies who provide Cloud services to businesses and individuals ?

There are now 504 Hyperscale Data centers all around the world hold all our data, serve all our entertainment, move our e-mails and the number is growing. These are facilities that contain tens of thousands of computer servers.

The largest cloud and internet companies are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook and there are also smaller companies such as Twitter, eBay, Alibaba, and Baidu.

While most of the 504 hyperscale facilities (40 percent) are in the US, the highest rates of growth have been in Europe and Asia-Pacific. China, Japan, the UK, Germany, and Australia now account for 32 percent of the total.

Facebook now has 12 data center campuses around the globe, including nine in the U.S. and three in international markets.

They have nearly 15 million square feet of data center space completed or under construction, with several million more feet in the planning stages.

FACEBOOK’S DATA CENTER “FARM” BUILDINGS IN SWEDEN

FACEBOOK'S COLD, COLD DATA CENTER

The social network established its Luleå data center in northern Sweden (just 70 miles south of the Arctic Circle). They save millions of dollars a year, to cool down the computer servers naturally.

Amazon and Microsoft launched more than half of all new data centers in the last 12 months.

Google and Alibaba were “the next most active companies,” according to Synergy.

The cloud and internet giants lease more than 70 percent of their hyperscale data center footprint from commercial data center operators.

Kelly Morgan, an analyst who tracks the space at the 451 Research Co., said that her team expected 2.5 million new equipment racks to be installed in data centers, representing (conservatively), about $75 billion in data center construction investment.

Global data centers used roughly 416 Tera (billion) Watt-hours in 2016, nearly 40% more than the entire United Kingdom uses in a year.

USA Direct Current (DC) consumption was 90 billion kilowatt – hours.

UTILITY AND OTHER NEEDS FOR DATA CENTERS TO OPERATE

A large data center is an industrial-scale operation using as much electricity as a small town !!

The music video for “Despacito” set an Internet record in April 2018 when it became the first video to hit five billion views on YouTube. Its up to 6 billion, 610 million right now.

Every click to see the video sets several servers to work — a Google search for "Despacito" activates servers in six to eight data centers around the world — consuming very real energy resources.

In the process, during that year, "Despacito" reached a less celebrated milestone: it burned as much energy as 40,000 U.S. homes use in a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfKE4pTXSuU (go to 2 min.)

THE CLOUD REQUIRES• An Internet connection• An account - Created with a username and a password• Agree to Terms

For a Google account, go to theGoogle Account creation page.

Follow the steps on the screen to set up your account and then you can use the account you created to sign in to Gmail, if you use it.

You will then be able to use Google Cloud and have 15 Gigabytes of free space to store things.

MICROSOFT “ONEDRIVE” CLOUD ACCOUNT

If you want to set up a OneDrive cloud account with Microsoft, you will first need to set up a Microsoft account, which is described on the next slide.

Then you can go to www.onedrive.com and select “sign up for free”.

If you go to OneDrive first, It will then let you select “create a Microsoft account”.

Type your email address and the password you want to use and select next. or select use a phone number instead, enter your phone number, and select next

You will get 5 Gigabytes of free space for storage and have to pay for more, after that.

If you have an Office 365 account which you get when you buy it for around $70.00, you get 1 Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of free space !!

To create a Microsoft account:

1) Go to login.live.com. Locate and select Sign up.

2) The signup form will appear. Follow the directions and enter the required information, such as your name, birth date, and gender.

3) Review the Microsoft Services Agreement and privacy statement, then click Create account.

4) Your Microsoft account is now created, and the account settings page will appear.

Just like with any online service, it's important to choose a strong password—in other words, one that is difficult for someone else to guess.

5) TO SIGN UP FOR THE ONEDRIVE CLOUD USED BY MICROSOFT, GO TO:

https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/

FOR A VIDEO TO ASSIST YOU WITH THIS, GO TO Video: Sign in or create an account for OneDrive (personal) – OneDrive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94PO2-TL4Vs 8 min.

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