Mobile Cloud: The second wave of cloud computing

Mobile clouds are the second wave of cloud computing; In this wave, only the ability to access data and applications from any device, anytime, anywhere, can be realized, as long as access to the World Wide Web or the ability to use a decent cellular network.

But does the mobile cloud really appear in front of the world today? Is IT staff ready for this?

Glass House Technologies is a cloud computing provider headquartered in Flamingham, Massachusetts. Chief technology officer Jim Damoulakis said: "No, IT staff is not ready." But yes, the mobile cloud has already appeared in front of the world. ”

The mobile cloud market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 88% per cent from 2009 to 2014, according to Juniper Research, which has boosted the overall cloud-based mobile application market output from more than 400 million dollars in 2009 to $9.5 billion in 2014. The ABI research company estimates that by 2014, the number of mobile cloud users will reach nearly 1 billion. "Mobile cloud computing will be the primary application development and deployment strategy by 2014, replacing today's native, downloadable mobile apps," the company said. ABI Research also predicts that by 2015 more than 240 million companies will be using cloud services through mobile devices.

Mobile clouds are different from standard moves and applications. For mobile applications, applications and data remain on the device, and they are local. The mobile cloud is a portal for applications and data, and applications and data are hosted on the application provider or someone else's server.

The mobile cloud has increased by more than three times times in 2011, according to model Metrics, a Chicago-based cloud provider. A report released earlier this year showed that mobile cloud applications grew three times-fold in the first half of its cloud computing customers, becoming the dominant cloud computing model of the 2011. Modelmetrics found that 80% of its customers have plans to adopt smartphones and tablets as part of their broader cloud computing projects.

"Cloud computing has a new shape in the 2011," says Adam Caplan, chief executive of Model Metrics. It is no longer just migrating business processes to the cloud environment, but deploying advanced mobile and social applications so that companies can change how employees work. ”