Cloud services in Japan – web mail most popular

By ( February 13, 2013 at 23:22) · Filed under Internet, Polls

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Do you use a cloud service? graph of japanese statisticsjapan.internet.com recently reported on the highlights of a survey from goo Research looking at cloud services.

Demographics

Beween the 22nd and 25th of January 2013 1,094 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internert-based questionnaire. 53.3% of the sample were male, 13.2% in their teens, 15.6% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 17.6% in their forties, 14.6% in their fifties, and 17.6% aged sixty or older.

I think this survey defines “cloud service” as “any service you have used on your local computer but now (also) use on the internet”, which is not my understanding. Cloud services to me imply a dynamic use model, so for storage, instead of signing up to a 50 Gb for $5 plan as is the usual model, instead you pay 10 cents per Gb uploaded and 5 cents per Gb downloaded. Mind you, now I think about it, from the service provider’s point of view they are providing a cloud service; I know that some online storage providers with flat-rate models actually use Amazon’s pay-per-use system at the back-end, and even something as boring as a shopping site may be located in a cloud service to cope with the ebb and flow in demand.
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Server virtualisation not well understood

By ( September 23, 2010 at 23:51) · Filed under Business, Hardware, Internet, Polls

Do you know the term 'Server Virtualisation'? graph of japanese statisticsA recent survey from Media Interactive (iResearch) and reported on by japan.internet.com took a look at the matter of servers, with this particular article focusing on the virtualisation aspect. I’ll apologise in advance for the technical nature of this, but it’s something I’m interested in, and it’s one aspect of Cloud Computing, another buzzword that does the rounds a lot without many people particularly knowing what it actually means.

Demographics

On the 27th of August 2010 300 members of the Media Interactive monitor group who worked in organisations and has the power of approval for server purchases completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The respondents were between 20 and 79 years old, but no further demographic information was given.

Cloud Computing is one of these terms with different meaning for different people. My definition is using resources from a pool of resources, with the usage expanding and contracting on demand, and charging being based on the usage. On which device, or how many devices, or who else is sharing the device is unimportant, just that the resources are available somewhere.
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