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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Cloud computing is the future, your device will just be an access point.

 It needs to be simple and well organized. Learn Android soon. The case for more PC power is over.  Steve

Cloud computing: 10 ways it will change by 2020 | ZDNet
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As a result, by 2020, if you were to ask a CIO to draw a map of their infrastructure, they would not be able to, says David Merrill, chief economist of Hitachi Data Systems. "He will be able to say 'here are my partner providers'," he says, but he will not be able to draw a diagram of his infrastructure.
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http://www.zdnet.com/cloud-computing-10-ways-it-will-change-by-2020_p2-7000001808/
Fierce competition between a few large providers could be a good thing, as it would still drive each of them to experiment with radical technologies. For example, in a bid to cut its internal networking costs and boost utilisation, Google has recently moved its entire internal network to the software-defined networking OpenFlow standard*, which looks set to shake up the industry as more people adopt it.




*OpenFlow: The data path portion still resides on the switch, while high-level routing decisions are moved to a separate controller, typically a standard server. This makes it reprogrammable on the fly.