AMD betting on cloud-mobility convergence

Grazed from FederalNewsRadio. Author: Tom Temin.

Cloud computing and mobile computing are somehow mutually reinforcing trends. But how exactly? One can exist without the other. I heard a really good answer from Rory Read, the chief executive officer of AMD. Advanced Micro Devices, the perennial No. 2 to Intel in the PC processor market, is in the midst of a bet-the-company strategy change. The PC in the traditional form of a box or a notebook, while not disappearing, has lessened in importance as a platform for innovation. So much energy is going into mobile devices — smart phones, phablets, tablets and "ultra" this, that and the other with touch screens and solid state drives.

These hardware form factors have been accompanied by a change in the way applications are programmed and architected. Apps exist independently of the data stores they draw from. That means they can synthesize output from lots of data sources from the rows and columns in relational databases to the geographic data that describes the whole world. Increasingly, Read and others believe that data will be stored in public clouds. Much of it already is when you consider how many organizations offer up their information to be available to apps…

Including, of course, federal agencies. At Federal News Radio we’ve reported for a year about the galaxy of policies and initiatives the Obama administration has launched around open data, open government and data as a valuable commodity. Lord knows few organizations churn out as much data as the U.S. federal government…

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