Virtual Desktop
As we are becoming more and more dependent on internet and staying connected 24 hrs a day to it has become so easy we are becoming less dependent on desktop based solutions. As we move along we would only be requiring a sophisticated hardware and an internet connection, virtually all the software would be somewhere in the world. What we are talking about is virtual desktop. The only problem area here would be that if we have a virtual desktop environment where would the data used by the application get stored? If that also resides in some remote location then the question of confidentiality and security at stake comes to picture. A better option would be to still have the data associated with the application locally and let the applications pick them up. But again when the application is loaded it picks up the data locally and has to process it remote which means it still has a hold on the data and the confidentiality is at a stake. So there needs to be some kind of a trust policy and security established in the application that is there in the remote. Anyway virtual desktop will evolve and could be a big talk down the line. One example of virtual desktop that is already available is the eyeOS and Ummu helps you create an environment for you using eyeOS.
