Cloud Computing Fun Facts

Cloud Computing Fun Facts 

Interesting Cloud Trends
1. By 2015, the Internet will connect 2.5 Billion people and more than 15 billion devices.

2. In the next 10 years the number of files enterprises deal with will grow by 75x.

3. More than 2% of electricity in the U.S. is consumed by datacenters.

4. It is expected that with the technology of today, the equivalent of about 45 new coal plans will be needed to power datacenters by 2015 without dramatic efficiency improvements.

5. A new server is added to the cloud for every 600 smartphones or 120 tablets.

Cloud Applications Researched at Intel 
1. Using cloud processing to decode brainwave patterns and create new user interfaces.

2. Using high-performance processors in the cloud to run and stream high-end games with advanced graphics to any and all of your devices.

3. Emergency response training by creating a massive, multiplayer 3D cloud game in which people play the roles of victims and responders.

4. Understanding community water resource management by creating a multiplayer 3D cloud game in which people play the roles of community consumers and stakeholders.

5. Using computation to automatically diagnose cancer, such as by capturing images of cells, comparing to massive databases of existing images, and identifying likely occurrences.

Other Possible Future Cloud Applications 
1. A “digital personal handler” wired into your glasses that see what you see, constantly pulls data from the cloud and whispers info to you during your day telling you who people are, where you can buy that cool thing you just saw, or how to adjust your plans when something new comes up.

2. A universal translator like in Star Trek, that performs near-real-time translation with natural language processing in addition to sensors and context awareness technologies to provide accurate results, all processed with the could.

3. Detecting earthquakes faster than sensing equipment, by monitoring the collective activity of social media tweets in a region, for better disaster response.

4. Solving crimes through automated processing of pictures and video feeds recorded by social media as well as security cameras to find both suspects and missing people.

5. Automatically deriving scientific equations that describe nature by analyzing behaviors.

6. Mining astronomical data for interesting phenomena such as identifying new planets.

7. Analyzing social networking sites and use of computer algorithms to decipher the mood of the general public to predict market fluctuations to direct stock trades.

8. Determining/predicting biodiversity trends in a region by automatically combining and analyzing numerous studies done by different scientist.