Jay Polding published in Canadian Consulting Engineer Magazine
March 4, 2013, Richmond Hill, ON – Jay Polding, Applications Specialist at SolidCAD Solutions, publishes article in the February 2013 issue of Canadian Consulting Engineer Magazine.
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Cloud Computing 101
By Jay Polding
How does the latest phase of the information technology revolution impact engineering firms in Canada?
When Blaine Jansen, in the Calgary office of Entuitive, wants to collaborate on a presentation for an upcoming conference with a colleague in Entuitive’s Toronto office he uses Dropbox, a popular cloud technology.
“Using Dropbox has been great to allow staff to collaborate with each other in multiple offices on things like marketing efforts and standards development, “ says Jansen. “It has also allowed us to effectively work in a truly mobile way. We don’t need to make sure that files are saved to a flash drive before leaving the office – they are just available wherever there is an Internet connection. In fact, [the service] has worked so well for us that we are in the planning stages to expand this type of technology to handle sharing of our project-based files.”
The term “cloud computing” refers to someone making use of off-site computing resources over the internet. They may do this to store or share files as is the case with Dropbox, or to speed up a certain function, like Autodesk 360 Render in Cloud. These off-site computing resources are stabled in large datacenters owned by IT giants like Amazon and Google.
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