Venture Beat is a great source of information and has some great articles focused around Cloud providers and watching the Cloud space to see what is up and coming. What is fascinating is the fact that I came across an article talking about how the desktop will be the thing of the past soon, in that I mean the desktop computer, which within my 2013 Predications post I had stated and will still stick to this fact – this is of course my opinion and not based on any widely scientific facts expect for the point of what is happening within Enterprises – BYOD, Ultrabooks, Tablets, VDI, Desktop-As-A-Service need I go on..!
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But do ask yourself if the desktop computer is a thing of the past how will your offer your internal users the same access, same data and know it is secured within your enterprise or corporate network….um……..!
So some interesting facts I have pulled from the post (click below for the detailed post) but some I found very interesting – let me know your comments and email me here:
- Gartner predicts that 821 million smart devices will be sold worldwide in 2012.
- In her latest Internet trends report, Mary Meeker shows how the Wintel empire will only represent 1/3 of personal computing devices by the end of the year.
- Forrester Research says that 74% of workers already use at least two computing devices, and they want access to their content across all of them.
- Enter the consumer personal cloud. Your desktop takes a back seat to a massive hosted file server called iCloud or SkyDrive or Google Drive that together could store as many as 5 trillion files by 2016.
Post back and information from this post can be found in the Venture Beat Article “The Death of the Desktop Means a Rebirth in IT”.