End of PC and beginning of new Era??!!?

Last week there have been lot of posts there in the blogs which were talking about the Post PC Era or End of PC... Those people who were talking about end of PC or Post PC era just forget that even to design a next generation of Tablet or to write the next generation of Tablet OS we need to have a Strong PC out there.. (At least for now - you can not do the designing or coding using the tablet)..

Also when we talk about “Cloud Computing” it is the term being used by every one in the Industry..but if we look at the back end solutions it is more are less remains same.

There are very few companies who have established a good Enterprise business model for “SaaS” and in “DaaS” I would say there is no company there around. This is mainly because there is no common definition / parameters for a Cloud computing platform just like what we have for PC’s / Thinclients or Tablets.. Every software / Hardware vendor would like to have their say on Cloud.. (VMWARE / Citrix / Red Hat / Ubuntu etc.)

The smaller players there out in the market are basically “Technology Boutique's” (If they use their own tools for some functions) or ("VAR's) who primarily users VMWARE / Citrix as a basic tool (Most of them use VMWARE) or few other software and Hardware products and work out and design the platform for the customers. Bigger players are basically trying to build a solution basis on their current Hardware solution stacks.. (Blades / SAN / Switches etc.) which can work with VMWARE / Citrix or Red Hat or other platforms. The back end DB would be the same which is there already..

Considering this the actual innovation on Cloud is happening in the Consumer space with the right business model.. (Sky drive / Appstores / Ubuntu one / Cloud Drive / different Musical stores etc..). Here is where customers are paying for different apps and using it as and when needed.. (with proper billing / support mechanism in place)..

For me the actual cloud set up could be the scenario like this.. – Using any OS from any device once you log in and u will get u r set of applications and data with your preferred settings anywhere.. in way it should free of you from depending on any OS / Device.. Google was going on to this but somewhere on the way they have changed and are going more of having their own set up.. (OS / Hardware etc.)..(Imagine a set up where an user can use any Mobile / Laptop / PC running any of the OS from any vendor.. Log in and access all his data / applications and do his work without any challenge.. that would be the ideal and best cloud environment.)

This would be possible by not centralizing everything but working out a Hybrid innovative solutions..which can help bridge the GAP between an Enterprise / Consumer set ups..

Any solution which comes on these lines would be a bigger hit.. iPhone or iPad would not have been successful if it does not provide the enterprise mail connectivity for the users along with the Host of other applications..

Lets wait and see who is coming up with a solution to bridge this GAP.. Till then the Hype will be there and every one will say their product is cloud enabled.. :-) :-)

And the answer for the End of PC Question would be - The Access devices will certainly be there.. may be in a different form with different specifications..