There's always a new era of "network computing" around the corner, but we won't reach it soon.
John Chambers, among others, has reignited a fervor around the prospects of "cloud computing."
Distributed computing has been championed on several occasions, perennially reemerging every five years or so but failing each time to overcome significant hurdles and operational risks before fading back into remission.
Let me save you some suspense, I believe the hype of cloud computing will once again taper off, even with advancements in Internet applications and improvements in connectivity the past few years. Bandwidth constraints and the growing cost of incremental traffic will partly be to blame (this is not a trivial hurdle; carriers grapple with an inability to charge by usage). The concept will also fail because of the complexity of maintaining and supporting so many remote devices and the costs of unavoidable outages; because part of a business' competitive advantage is its operational customization of off-the-shelf software; because of regulatory hurdles and restrictions not often considered part of the discussion.
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Source: Forbes
By: Avi Cohen
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