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Originally Posted by SZNY
I know! Just talking from my perspective, developing/deploying apps without babysitting and worry about servers and reachability, cloud storage and paas cloud is really cool.
From a consumers perspective Virtual Desktops is for sure the future thing. It would be nice to have the same desktop on your tablet/PC/TV including your working environment.
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Yea. One thing I agree with some of what the other people have said here, is that some cloud services are not stable. Amazon for one has had there issues with downtown. I do not know exactly what has caused it, but I do believe it is because they are not replicating to other locations and there was a datacenter failure. I am not exactly sure. But things such has Hosted Exchange are getting questioned a lot, from many companies I know that have been using there own Exchange/BES servers. And most are pretty stables, Rackspace, App River. Microsoft 365 is going to be huge right now. Salesforce.com is huge. Best contact management system around. all hosted solutions, or Cloud, or Software as a Service, you choose the name. VIrtual Desktop has gotten a lot of attention in the last couple of years. But very costly for a Small to Medium size business. The outlay for hardware, software and setup is very high upfront costs. With not enough ROI to make a huge difference. Much better for bigger corps. People with huge call centers. So people are going for small monthly payments, even though the end result is a higher cost. But same desktop anywhere on any computer, tablet etc. Its awesome.
I use Citrix XenApp on my iPad. All my work software and drive shares are there. I can work the same form any PC. Its not a true desktop. But gets the job done.