Hello readers,
This thing has had me stumped for quite some time and I cant seem to find anyone elses thoughts about it. I hope to get some informed views on the subject here.
We have 2 trends in IT that get the brunt of the action:
Cloud computing.
ITs one stop answer for the future. Commodity computing here we come!
Mobile devices.
The biggest IT (hardware) BOOM of the decade. Smartphones and tablets are popping up fast enough to make mushrooms jealous.
So why is it that;
On my multicore multi-gigabyte memory machine (that has enough storage for a year of HD movie viewing pleasure) I am advised to not run any applications because the cloud is where all the needed power and capacity is. All software vendors are creating fancy web interfaces and discarding client software.
When over on the other trend we are seeing;
Nifty devices that sport GHz processors and have a Gigabyte of memory (so not that powerful) and for these devices everyone seems to be writing full client software that is installed on and uses resources of said underpowered device. Even worse, we are almost blindly installing every fragment of possibly entertaining software we can get on our spiffy device.
Can someone tell me what I am missing here? Should this not be the other way around?
Regards,
Barry (a baffled IT manager)