Google is becoming known for their IT services and cloud computing software. CIO.com talks about how their new “laptop” is coming to the market and how it will mainly focus on online data backup and cloud computing. Check out the details below about the new IT services.
Do you want to marry Google, as a computing partner that is? If you do, the new Chromebook might make sense. If not, don’t even think about buying one when they go on sale in a few weeks.
A Chromebook is sort of a netbook based on Google’s Chrome operating system. Like any laptop-like device, it has a screen, a keyboard and a trackpad. But that’s where the similarities to the laptops or netbooks you’ve seen end.
The Chromebook could be named the Cloudbook, because it’s designed to work exclusively online, with storage and applications on Google’s servers in the cloud. Indeed, it has no local storage (unless you count a small solid state drive used to cache work in progress), no optical drives and few connectors for peripherals.
Because the Chromebook has a small operating system, and few, if any, drivers to load, it boots in less than 10 seconds and wakes up almost immediately if you’ve put it to sleep. And like a netbook, the first two commercial versions of the Chromebook are light (between three and four pounds), claim excellent battery life—six to eight hours— and are priced well below $500.
But a Chromebook is not just another small laptop. It’s a whole different way to go about your daily computing chores.
Want to work offline, on an airplane, for example, or when the Internet isn’t accessible for other reasons? You can’t. As Scott MeNeely said famously and prematurely said some years ago, “The network is the computer.” It wasn’t true then, but if you’re a Chromebook user, it is.
Go to CIO.com to read the full article. If you are ready to live in the cloud, do you think that you would invest in this type of computing networking system? Do you think that it would make working from anywhere much easier and make you more money? Check out this article called “IT Services in Boston: How The Future of Computing is in the Clouds”. It talks about how cloud computing services can help your business.
