Ericsson envisions a ‘networked society’

MarketWatch ^ | Aude Lagorce, MarketWatch

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Network specialist also highlights the potential of the cloud

BARCELONA (MarketWatch) — Telecom-networks giant Ericsson AB on Monday presented its vision for a ‘networked society’ that will make much broader use of cloud services and said it expects sales of fourth-generation Long Term Evolution equipment to account for a significant part of business in 2012.

Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday, Ericsson Chief Executive Hans Vestberg said that over the next 10 to 20 years many more devices that are part of our daily lives such as televisions, appliances and cars, would get on the network and be able to communicate to make our lives easier.

“Ericsson will be the leader in the network society,” he said.

As for network technology, the vast majority of the group’s revenue will still stem from 3G networks in 2011, he said, but investment in faster LTE networks is gathering speed and the technology will become an important part of Ericsson's business from 2012.

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By making use of a cloud-based operating system, the service removes the need for users to oversee things like virus protection, software updates and maintenance. In other words, these features are moved away from the user and into the cloud.

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By making use of a cloud-based operating system, the service removes the need for users to oversee things like virus protection, software updates and maintenance. In other words, these features are moved away from the user and into the cloud.

Thank goodness the cloud is immune to viruses.

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Cloud computing also guarantees a “pay for play” model where you own nothing...not even your data.

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Wrong. Every cloud service contract says that YOU own your data.

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Wrong. Every cloud service contract says that YOU own your data.

Correct! The huge part or 5the future of cloud services will be STORAGE.

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Sure that contract is really going to stop anyone in the data center from looking at your data, and hackers would never think about going after such a large target, and data centers never lose data and if your contract lapses for some reason you will always be able to recover your data.

Do you know how expensive even tier 3 storage is? Even with economies of scale there is no way you could get 2 tb of "cloud" storage for the equivalent of a 2tb external HD. What do you think their motive is?

When the "networked society" is mature enough to allow the average user to access their own data on a home machine then it will be something.

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I was referring to EATB’s assertion you don’t own your data. That is wrong most of the time. That has nothing to do with the integrity and honesty of the firm and its employees.

Our employees have to go through rigorous security checks to get hired (much more difficult than Obama ever did). We take our SAS 70 certification very seriously and have strong controls in place. We undergo the most difficult security audits from top tier financial companies around the world. If we lost our SAS 70 certification, we wouldn’t be able to continue to earn their business. Many other SaaS providers have similar safeguards and control sets in place and it behooves the consumer or enterprise buyer to understand who they are entrusting their data with.

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That was my assertion I believe. If a cloud storage vendor controls access to your data, backups of your data, owns the physical storage device on which the data resides, controls the integrity of your data, protects the data from theft, and protects it from viruses, then the technical ownership become just that...a technicality. If you desire another party to have effective ownership of your data then go for it. Personally I wouldn't use it. If you are in the business of providing storage than I would expect you to vehemently disagree.