Computing clouds are very large concentrations of computing power and storage. This concept will be the new force in developments in the neat future.
Software will increasingly come as a service through a browser. Microsoft, Google a.o. are already competing in this arena. People will also keep the “old” ways of doing things. We thus get software plus services. Data will be where users prefer.
Many devices will be used to reach the net which becomes a hub. Around this you have some worldscale major applications/platforms and many smaller applications written by independent developers. Users will also want to use their devices off the internet.
All your devices must be integrated – with automatic synchronization of important files. Independent developers will be offered tools to produce the new offerings.
The cloud will be based on open standards in the open-source community.
Microsoft wants to create a new “Windows in the cloud” (?). Health Vault from MSC with medical data can connect to monitoring devices. New applications for consumers and institutions including education will be forthcoming. Mailboxes will be online, as well as standard wordprocessors, spreadsheets etc.
The big question: How will the software industry develop? Where will we find the “hip”companies? Very soon all devices will be internet embedded!
Google launches its new Chrome browser in an attack on Microsoft. Chrome is also in effect an operating system running on the web or cloud. Google´s business is now search, ads and apps. Chrome source code is free.
Oct. 2008: Microsoft unveiled a version of its Windows operating system that is designed to run over the internet, marking a milestone in the company’s attempt to reposition its core software business around the web.
Windows Azure signals a potentially disruptive shift to make money from internet-based computing through subscriptions and advertising.
The software is intended to support a new web-based software infrastructure on which mass-market services could be built and deployed, making it far more ambitious than earlier generations of centralised computing.
31. October 2008: How much of software will migrate to the cloud – we will probably have a mix of the old and new regimes.
Increasingly devices will upload stuff from the net, and web pages are pieces of software that are executed in the browser. There will also be widgets living on the device. Platforms for consumers and business will emerge.
Netbooks, wireless devices will be important for the cloud. We will see an informationcentric world with an established body of data that will follow people through life. The data will be available from the net, device neutral, and virtualisation allows access from anywhere.
The cloud will gather information as well, also from sensors and tags, that we´ll see all around us.
Who will be the cloud providers: Amazon, Google, cisco, EMC, VMWare?
Do we need a Cloud Computing Consortium and Open Social Consortium?
Companies will be smaller and more agile, buying packages of services, don´t do it yourself!
Mobile devices will become virtualized as well
Lets move it all to the web!