Mobile Cloud Computing: IT Trend of the Decade

Grazed from LinkedIn.  Author: Reza Rahimi.

mobile computing is expanding beyond the traditional approach on voice and data delivery to encompass new classes of rich mobile applications and technologies such as location based services, mobile social networks, crowd computing, sensory based applications and wearable technologies to name a few.

These classes of mobile applications and technologies have quantitative and qualitative criteria of growing importance like efficiency and performance, scalability, privacy and reliability. Due to the resource limitation of mobile devices, cloud computing could be a good potential candidate to solve these problems…


Cloud computing could be simply defined as a style of scalable and elastic computing and storing where IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” to external customers using Internet. It could provide computation, software, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and system configuration and maintenance…

Read more from the source @ http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140425173359-54857394-mobile-cloud-computing-it-trend-of-the-decade