Cloud Computing: Do more with less – the Future of end-user computing
March 16, 2014
Grazed from TechPageOne. Author: Blake Snow.
What they don’t know can’t hurt them. That’s modern end-user computing in a nutshell. So long as people get their stuff (i.e. data and apps) via a familiar interface, they don’t care how it gets there or on which device it’s accessed. They just want their digital stuff “to work” and are increasingly indifferent to the branded cogs delivering it.
“The PC is no longer the sole ‘go-to’ device for personal and corporate computing,” says Jeff McNaught, a chief strategist at Dell. “We live in the multi-device era.” That era began with “bring your own device” or BYOD, a term coined in a 2005 academic report (PDF) to reflect more open IT policies. Back then, workers just wanted to access email from their favorite consumer phone or laptop, as opposed to a company issue. Kind of a hassle for IT departments, but not that big of a deal…
Nearly a decade later, workers want access to a lot more than just email. The want the whole kit and caboodle. Every specialized app. All their data. The digital sink. And they want it all to play nice and blend with their personal computing, too. To pile it on, workers want all this stuff to sync across multiple devices, regardless of platform, in real-time, and without asking their approval. And paying little mind to security, workers want it all to reside behind a single password…
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