Personal cloud coming to you by 2014
In a report announced yesterday by Gartner, by the year 2014 the focus of Internet access would have fully shifted from the personal computer as an access device to “personal cloud” services.
The emergence of the personal cloud is the culmination of five megatrends and has profound implications for CIOs providing computing services for employees as well as consumers, says Gartner's report. The personal cloud will enable users to access online services with their device of choice, “leveraging the strength of each device, ultimately enabling new levels of user satisfaction and productivity”, says the report.
“Major trends in client computing have shifted the market away from a focus on personal computers to a broader perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices” says Steve Kleynhans research vice president at Gartner. “Emerging cloud services will become the glue that connects the web of devices users choose the access during the different aspects of their daily life.”
