Cloud computing will be the future of the Web, and soon Mobile cloud computing will be a reality, when all the data and processing is going to happen at the Cloud. The mobile would become a device to access the cloud where the data storage and processing happens. Google is already ventured into Mobile cloud computing applications, the mobile version of Gmail and Google Maps are on the Cloud. However most of the applications today do the data storage and processing on the Mobile devices and not the cloud, they only use the Infrastructure for hosting their applications.
Mobile Cloud will be explored by device manufactures, service providers and mobile application development companies because of the growth potential. According to ABI Research forecast there will be almost 1 billion users of mobile cloud applications by 2014. It has also been predicted that cloud computing will tune $20 billion revenues by end of 2014. The Platform-as- a-service players like Google and Amazon will begin to market their mobile capabilities aggressively starting 2010.
Enterprise Mobility on cloud will have many advantages; one main advantage is that it reduces the significance of the device operating system, providing easier support for different mobile handset manufacturers. The current enterprise mobile applications are developed specific to one operating system, or many version of the same application to suite different OS. These enterprise applications require significant processing power and memory on the device. If the enterprise applications are developed on the cloud using web development technologies, applications can run on the server instead of the device, so handset requirements are reduced and developers can develop just one version of the application.
The data will be stored on the cloud which has both advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is even if the device is lost the risk of data loss is reduced as the data is constantly synchronized with the server. Also the storage capacity and processing power of the server is more than any handset which increases the application performance. The enterprise mobility has concerns with the security and management of the application & data on the cloud. A cloud-based application will stop working if the network is not available, but new languages like HTML 5 could provide a helping hand as it can enable caching on the handset, allowing the work to continue until the network is available.
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