Mike Dano in Fierce Wireless says cloud computing technology is technologically and strategically important. “It is so pervasive and stretches across so many different applications, services and market segments that it’s almost impossible to quantify and calculate,” says Dano.
Cell phones are becoming mere windows into a vast, interconnected network. Most analysts expect that what was once stored on phones–pictures, music and even names and phone numbers–will soon reside inside a giant data center — and be accessed via a wireless data connection.
Wireless users may come to rely on cloud-based streaming music, photo sharing and other such services. On the business side of things, cloud services could change the entire structure of the IT field–and workers’ mobile interaction with this new structure brings the wireless industry directly into the center of the game.
Some see a future where cloud computing can replace the app store.
Today’s smartphone apps “live” on a given device. In the future those apps will “live” in the cloud and be accessed via an Internet browser.
The result would be an industry flattened by the cloud, and applications could be built once and accessed through any device. Such a future would make obsolete the Android vs. iPhone debates by making applications universally accessible.
The cloud, of course, is only as powerful and pervasive as the network powering it.
According to Cisco, video will dominate mobile data in the next few years. Video apps, both live and on demand, may be the first to utilize The Cloud.
Yesterday, Google released a new beta for Chrome, and teamed up with a few creative minds to bring Chrome’s speed to life.
ABI Research forecasts that mobile cloud computing subscribers worldwide will grow from 42.8 million subscribers in 2008 to just over 998 million in 2014. Juniper Research predicts the market for cloud-based mobile applications will grow to $9.5 billion in 2014.
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