Are netbooks quietly driving us toward cloud computing?

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Both netbooks AND smartphones

Netbooks & smartphones are likely to cause companies to re-evaluate their computing strategies.

By moving to browser-based/cloud applications, companies can:

1. reduce their support costs (software updates are propagated to all clients instantaneously).

2. provide OS (Windows/Linux/OS X) & device (smartphone/netbook/notebook/desktop) flexibility.

3. simplify data backup (performed at the server level, instead of the client level).

4. enable workforce collaboration.

By utilizing technologies like HTML5, Gears, Native Client, etc., browser-based applications also begin to approach desktop application functionality & performance.

Posted by: linuser   Posted on: 03/02/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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