2012華科博士英語真題

2012真題

Cloud Storage Basics

Comedian George Carlin has a routine in which he talks about howhumans seem to spend their lives accumulating "stuff." Once they'vegathered enough stuff, they have to find places to store all of it. If Carlinwere to update that routine today, he could make the same observation about computerinformation. It seems that everyone with a computer spends a lot of time acquiring data andthen trying to find a way to store it.

For some computer owners, finding enough storage space to hold all the datathey've acquired is a real challenge. Some people invest in larger harddrives. Others prefer external storage devices likethumb drives or compact discs. Desperate computer owners might deleteentire folders worth of old files in order to make space for new information. But some arechoosing to rely on a growing trend: cloud storage.

While cloud storage sounds like it has something to do with weather fronts and stormsystems, it really refers to saving data to anoff-site storage system maintained by a third party. Instead of storinginformation to your computer's hard drive or other local storage device, yousave it to a remote database. The Internet provides the connection between your computer andthe database.