Innovation forum #1:
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Some key points:
- Audience was quizzed on "Are you using the cloud in your work environment = 67% yes, 33% no.
- Quizzed on having concerns with cloud security = 70%yes, 30%no - last year yes was larger
- Nearly infinite computing power - how can that help us
- Simlulations - engineerings can get dozens of options quickly
- In the IT area, the public IT environement is the fastest growing space in IT
- Millions of new users each month (all happened in the space of a year)
- 15 million users now using AutoDesk 360. There are 1 million new downloaders per month
Security:
- Poll - how many of the audience has at least 50% of their business in the cloud - about 10% of group
- Poll - of reminder, those using the cloud for say 10 or less applications - total - 70%
- Poll - those above or at least planning in the next 18 months to use the cloud - 98% of audience
Security problems that even large companies such as VeriSign and Google have encountered:
We can see the above happening with RMIT already.
Note, in using the cloud, for this to be viable, a company wants to know that using it will not loose them money but the opposite, save money. Unfortunately for most companies, security then kicks in second. Hence security and IP is an issue that will be a primary focus over the next few coming years.
When dealing with security and IP some facts:
- How secure is the data within your own company (from employees divulging data)?
- On the cloud security might be tighter than in the office, however is being shared in a wider audience
- What security to your consultants have (your's may be high, but it's the "weakest" link that matters)
- When protecting your data, you need to prioritise what is important and what is not.
- In house security is difficult - who's responsible. In the cloud someone can be held responsible
Changing topic a little:
Change in percentage of people on line in the last 10 years...
Out text, image and video, it was video that really started to take off in the cloud due to that large amount of storage area required. From 2005 to 2012 youtube daily video access jumped from zero to 4 billion videos a day (note a population of 7 billion).
Currently we are uploading 48 hours of video on the cloud every minute. So in a month, we put more video in the cloud than all the TV stations have recorded in the past 60 years.
Interesting statistics - look at the explosing of video from 2005 to 2010 (blue):
OK, so this is what was happening in the past (see below). Now we're slowly moving to video meetings. This is replacing texting where you can't see faces, expressions, context, etc.
Now this next clip blows my mind. 185 voices over 12 countries (check it out: choir ):
