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May 2009 • Vol.9 Issue 5
Page(s) 84-86 in print issue
Into The Cloud
The Internet May Be Our Next Big PC
"Is the great PC revolution about to change direction? For the past quarter century, computing enthusiasts have coveted the power and versatility available on the desktop. Graphics accelerators, in-creased bus sizes, mammoth hard drives, and multicore processorsâ€"all things we unabashedly covet here at CPUâ€"put the “personal†in personal computing. After all, having the power of a minimainframe on your desk was the promise and allure of a PC world.
But a new age of cloud computing seems poised to reverse that polarity and put more of the functionality and processing power of the desktop onto the In-ternet. More than that, the cloud wants to absorb a wide range of IT functions used throughout the industry. Some day soon, applications, processes, enterprise servers, and even operating systems, which now exist on desks and in corporate data centers, may all live in the Internetâ€"the “cloud.â€"
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May 2009 • Vol.9 Issue 5
Page(s) 84-86 in print issue
Into The Cloud
The Internet May Be Our Next Big PC
"Is the great PC revolution about to change direction? For the past quarter century, computing enthusiasts have coveted the power and versatility available on the desktop. Graphics accelerators, in-creased bus sizes, mammoth hard drives, and multicore processorsâ€"all things we unabashedly covet here at CPUâ€"put the “personal†in personal computing. After all, having the power of a minimainframe on your desk was the promise and allure of a PC world.
But a new age of cloud computing seems poised to reverse that polarity and put more of the functionality and processing power of the desktop onto the In-ternet. More than that, the cloud wants to absorb a wide range of IT functions used throughout the industry. Some day soon, applications, processes, enterprise servers, and even operating systems, which now exist on desks and in corporate data centers, may all live in the Internetâ€"the “cloud.â€"
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