Warwick Peter-Budge's List: Cloud

• Cloud computing is still yet to reach its peak; it’s still experiencing hiccups.
• The best bet for your business, in my opinion, is to adopt hybrid cloud strategy, combining your private cloud with public cloud. When something goes wrong with your public cloud, then your private cloud can take over – and vice versa.
• if you don’t have access to the technology above, just be cautious in adopting the cloud. Using the cloud for your backup needs might be one of the most effective usages of the cloud – perhaps better than trusting the cloud with your critical business operations.
• relying too much on the cloud is probably not ideal today.

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• DNA could be used to archive digital data.
• The information was then read back out with 100% accuracy.
• It is possible to store huge volumes of data in DNA for thousands of years, the researchers write in Nature magazine.
• the costs involved in synthesizing the molecule in the lab make this type of information storage "breathtakingly expensive" at the moment,
• newer, faster technologies will soon make it much more affordable,

• "One of the great properties of DNA is that you don't need any electricity to store it," explained team-member Dr Ewan Birney from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) at Hinxton, near Cambridge.

   
• the universality of the life molecule means there would probably never be a backwards-compatibility issue where the technology of the day was incapable of reading the vault's archives.

• Physically, the DNA carrying all that information is no bigger than a speck of dust.

   

  Team member Nick Goldman said the molecule was an incredibly dense storage medium. One gram of DNA ought to be able to hold about two petabytes of data, he added - the equivalent of about three million CDs.

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