In a small farming town in the middle of Washington State, a giant, ugly building at the heart of the new Internet. It’s a vast data center, one of three in this town. This one belongs to Microsoft, and inside its tightly secured building are tens of thousands of computers. In the future all of your life - documents, your messages, your pictures - could be stored in places like this. It’s the next phase of the computing revolution.
The computer battleground is now moving from the desktop PC, where Microsoft is dominant, to the Internet, where it isn’t, and giant data centers like this one are going to be vital weapons. The next big thing is called cloud computing, and each of these servers is just part of that cloud. So what is cloud computing? Well, for most of us, everything we do on a computer, from writing a letter to loading a photo, starts and finishes on our home PC, using programs stored there.
But now doing all those things could mean a journey into what’s called the cloud, huge banks of computers in data centers, which we could access wherever we go. That letter, that photo, all our data, and the programs we use, even a whole operating system, could end up in this cloud. It’s the vision of this man, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates’ successor as the firm’s chief software architect.
“We’re increasingly in a world of many, many devices, and we can use that, um, operating system, that, that, uh ‘Windows in the sky’ in order to bring all those devices together to make it easier for you to manage all of these devices.” But Microsoft isn’t alone. In fact, it’s behind the likes of Google and Amazon in offering cloud computing.
This script is being written in a Google document, which only exists on the Internet, and our interview with the man behind that application is now on You Tube, another part of Google’s cloud. He says he’s not worried about the new rival. “Competition, even stiff competition from, from Microsoft doesn’t bother us because it will either make the Internet as a whole better, which is what we want, or it’ll be irrelevant to making the Internet better, which we think won’t succeed in the long run.
This battle in the clouds means the likes of Microsoft and Google will store more and more of our data. They say they’ll keep it secure and private, but we’re putting the details of our lives and the Internet’s future in their hands. Rory K. Jones, BBC News, Los Angeles. | |
be at the heart of ~ : ~의 중심에 있다, ~의 핵심이다
ex. Cost-cutting is at the heart of their development plan.
* heart of: the most important or basic part of something
* go/get to the heart of something : ~의 핵심을 찌르다 (= relate to its most important part)
ex. These questions go to the heart of the current debate.
revolution : 혁명, 대변혁, 개혁
battleground : (= battlefield) 싸움터, 전장
dominant : 지배적인, 가장 유력한, 우세한, 주요한, 우뚝 솟은 (vt.vi. dominate )
ex. a dominant social class 지배적 사회 계급
ex. a dominant peak 우뚝 솟은 봉우리
* dominate : ~ 을 지배하다, ~ 보다 우세하다 / If a building, mountain, or other object dominates an area, it is so large or impressive that you cannot avoid seeing it.
ex. The earthquake once again dominated the news. (to be the most important issue, activity, problem, etc.
ex. It's one of the biggest buildings in this area, and it really dominates this whole place. 이 곳에서 가장 두드러진다.
* dominance : 우월, 지배, 우세
load : ~ 에 짐을 싣다, ~ 에게 무거운 짐을 지우다, (무거운) 짐, (건 물 따위가 받는) 하중, (정신적인) 중압, (화약의) 장전, (총포) 에 장전하다
ex load a ship with coal 배에 석탄을 싣다
bank : (물건의) 열, 줄, 저장소 / a large number of things in a row, especially pieces of equipment
* bank of: a bank of TV monitors / * a blood bank 혈액 은행
access : ~ 에 접근하는 길, (물건을) 이용 [입수]하는 기회, (남에게의) 접근, 면회 (의 기회), ~ 에 접근하다, 입수[이용]하다
* accessible : (장소·사람 등이) 접근하기 쉬운, 출입할 수 있는, 면접하기 쉬운
ex. Access to up-to-date financial information is important to our success.
ex. gain access: Some groups still have difficulty gaining access to the information.
ex. She's one of a handful of aides with direct access to the president.
ex. There is easy access to the countryside by rail.
end up : ~ 로 끝이 나다.(= wind up ), 결국 ~ 되다 [메모 참고]
successor : 후임, 후계자
architect : 건축가, 설계자, 기획자, 설계하다, 구성하다
bring together : 불러 모으다, 의견을 일치시키다, 결합시키다, 조립하다
ex. He brought everyone together in the conference room.
ex. I tried to bring them together, but they are too stubborn.
the likes of : (= the like of ~) ~와 같은 것[사람]/ used for referring to a particular type of person or thing
ex. I doubt they'd give one of those jobs to the likes of us. 우리와 같은 사람들에게
ex. Why would somebody like her want to spend an evening with the likes of me? 나와 같은 사람과
ex. Did you ever hear the like of it? 당신은 그런 것을 들어 본 일이 있어 요?
application : 신청(서), 지원(서), 응모, 애플리케이션(응용 소프트웨어의 총칭)
stiff : 딱딱한, 경직된, 굳은, <경쟁이> 심한
bother : 괴롭히다, 귀찮게 하다, 성가시게 하다, 귀찮음, 성가신 일, 귀찮게 하는 것[사람]( something or someone that causes trouble or annoys you)
ex. I hope George wasn't too much of a bother. / ex. Let me pick up the children from school, it's no bother.
* bother to ~ : [부정문에서] 일부러 하다, 애써 ~하다
ex. It was such a stupid question that I didn't even bother to reply.
ex. Nothing I do makes any difference anyway, so why bother?
as a whole : 전체로서, 총체적으로, 대체적으로
ex. Many organizations use public relations as a way of promoting an image of the business as a whole rather than just one product. 많은 조 직 단체들마다 단지 한 가지 상품뿐만이 아니라 전체 사업 이미지의 판촉 수단으로서 홍보활동을 한다.
relevant : (당면 문제에) 관련된, 관련있는
* relevant to ~ : ex. matters relevant to the subject 그 문제에 관련이 있는 사항
* irrelevant 관련없는
in the long run : 장기적으로
* in the short run : 단기적으로
in a person's hands : (= in the hands of ~ ) ~의 수중에
* fall into someone's hands : ~의 수중에 떨어지다/1. to be caught by someone or come under their control 2. to get it, usually by chance
ex. All the western provinces had fallen into enemy hands.
ex. We don't want this information to fall into the wrong hands. | |