Collaboration

EID100 — Week 3

Housekeeping

Modules & Participation

• One topic per module per week
• Marks should be up in a week
• Ensure you are citing images and stats/facts/etc.
• #Module2 due next week @ midnight
• Course outline is king

Housekeeping

Final Project

•  Four options:  PSA, blog, comm standards, presentation
• Topic should be related to digital media
• Pitch your ideas (email, Twitter, blog, in-person)
• Group registrations will be available by reading week

"We kill people based on metadata"

– Michael Hayden
Former director of the NSA

Affordances of
Digital MEdiums

Asynchronous

Anti-spacial, not tethered, non-geographic

Accurate

Fast

Archivable

Sharable

Adaptable

Cloud Computing Basics

• Dominant model: sold as a utility or service
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Dropbox, Google Drive
• Demanding infrastructure needs
  • Server farms
  • Cooling
  • Redundancy
  • Battery backup

Which uses the most energy?

Virtualization
Redundancy
Middleware

Front end

Front end

• Human-Computer Interaction layer
• Simplifies the complexities of accessing a server
• Accessed & used by the user
• Provides point of interaction between user and system
• Runs on the client (your computer)
• The interface

Back end

Processing layer

Unseen by user

Remote retrieval and storage of data

Runs on a server

Cloud Vision

Where is our data?

Complexity vs. Simplification

What layers exist to make it all work?

In a city, urban planners are blamed for poor design

Who is held accountable for the cloud's design?

#EID100project

Every cloud...

has the characteristics of a utility.

What are we doing with our systems/software/data
when we place them in the cloud?

Pros

Flexible

Scalable

Cost-effective

Secure

Cons

Security

Legacy software

Bankruptcy

Intellectual property

* Paradoxes could be found for each case

Interop

Horizontal vs Vertical

Perspective defines the type of interop direction

Across entity type (industry, city, company, division, product)

Ryerson transcript to MIT admissions

Moving through processes or systems within an entity

Ryerson RAMSS to Ryerson HR

BYOD

Bring Your Own Device

Security & Interop

Every device poses a risk

Regulating and authenticating

Personal vs company data

BYOD

Security & Interop

National Post: Federal departments consider banning USB keys in wake of dozens of security breaches

CBC: Federal agency loses data on 583,000 Canadians (student loan records)

Security

The encrypted cloud

Regulations on encryption (2048-bit for USA)

Data transmission considerations

Key pairs & storing keys

via Information Is Beautiful

Collaboration

For Business...

What's broken?

The rise of social business

Tools for us

trendblog.net

Kahoot.it