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Arthur Cole’s recent article, referenced at the end of this post, brings a lot of old questions up as well as the question of will their be a desktop. Well, in our opinion, you need something to organize your data and access. Perhaps we are back to the term portal, but is there a difference between a portal and virtual desktop? You shouldn’t care.

Even though one should be able to save some money with Virtual Desktops or Cloud Desktops as they are often known now, saving money is just one aspect. And just about everyone supporting the chain of existing desktop infrastructure has a clear conflict of interest with cutting anything.

Beyond the difficult costs challenges of implementation, support and security, there is the aspect of why you spent the money in the first place. Productivity.

And orienting the cloud desktop, virtual desktop, portal or whatever we call it, to the user means the user will have better access. Of course, that all amounts to doing that right too.

Here is the article from Cole:

Too Little, Too Late for Desktop Virtualization?

This article talks about the trend being to get more devices in the mix. And, yes, Corporate IT does need to flex in some way to allow people to connect their way to their stuff to be productive and happy.

Most people are just simply too connected to their device and see that as their stuff. By moving their stuff to The Cloud in a connected and synced way makes devices secondary.

That is the trick. Making your files, data, bookmarks, contacts, email, etc. the primary focus and the devices secondary. The Cloud is slowly but surely going to supply simpler devices with what you need.

Meanwhile, vendors don’t like it and neither do folks like Market Watch. The simpler it gets, the less costly, the less advertising and less to talk about.

In any case, here is the post about an important trend, just not the most important trend.

The Bring Your Own Device Trend

The good news for business owners is when you have a list of 10 things, you should consider focusing on the top three that resonate with you. So, this list of 10 IT trends might give smart business owners the three things they should focus on next year.

No surprise but Virtual Computing and the Cloud are all over this Top IT Trends for 2012 article. And Desktop Anywhere has been all over this since 2001. Welcome aboard.

While Cloud Desktop Computing it not listed specifically, Gartner gets that too. For even small business, costs savings are there in a big way. Here is the complete article.

Gartner: 10 key IT trends for 2012

We love entrepreneurship and often the individual entrepreneurs themselves and their stories are so inspiring and interesting. It can be hard to compete with the big dogs out there in the business world. But the Open Source coupled with the Internet, aka the World Wide Web, big dogs need to watch out.

The Cloud not only allows fortunate folks like me to have what I need to run my business, but also the folks in the developing world and beyond are getting a better change to thrive and create businesses and personal wealth.

Infrastructure, in the form of digital connectivity, is cutting down the distance between just about everywhere and everyone. I took this concept a step further in An Idea Worth Spreading section of my TED profile.  The piece may be short, but it is a very large idea and one whose time has come. TED is a cool site to check out in general too.

Here is a link my article:

Free Cloud Desktop

Anyway, we are really happy to have this day come and be even more than we thought it would be. And, remember, this is just the beginning. Let us know what you think. To tweet, just click on the digital version of the blue bird of happiness here Tweet, send me an email at jeff@desktopanywhere.com or just make your comments in the box below.

In the case of Cloud Sourcing this is a great thing. The x86 style homogenized computing cloud services are cheaper, faster, better and with the right vendor or service can often deliver savings of a factor of 10 to certain projects. In some cases, even more. Sound too good to be true? Take a look at our Free Cloud Desktop and explain how a little upstart like Desktop Anywhere could do that without such an architecture.

The big technology vendors have always played their space like a battleground. A lot of the problems people have with their technology working is because the vendors are waging war on their desktops. They want to be incompatible. This is the way the market sorts things out.

It is a rough game like that of evolution. The word “fittest” is even too clean a term to the way technology “survival” is sorted out.

The Internet fundamentally changed the nature of this particular war a long time ago. Everyone has access to this same weapon of mass destruction to an market, often from a garage. Unlike a physical war, this one is waged at the whim of the end user. If the user likes what your new upstart competitor has better, then the user joins that new alliance. And if the user likes it so much he tells his friends and allies, then he is viral marketing for the new upstart. And market behemoths are often wounded or vanquished by a new idea, a new way to deliver technology or just by doing something that was a conflict of interest for those making the technology decisions. Often the hot air is just let out of their gigantic and inefficient profit model or in house budgets.

And this Cloud thing is not just one market. It relentlessly creeps like a magnificent weed into market after market until it has taken over. And unlike your lawn, this is very good news for the market at large. Capitalism at its best.

Read about the latest battle from Information Week:

Clouds Vs. Outsourcing: The Next Battleground

We have some good ideas for the first wave of the way users will get lots of value using this new Free Cloud Desktop Computing technology. We can’t wait to hear from all the Cloud loving folks out there to tell us their ideas for how to make the use of this new realm of technology. Feel encouraged to speak out (perhaps using #FreeCloudDesktop or #DesktopAnywhere) on Twitter.

It’s about time that the Information Technology Staff doesn’t mandate equipment choice just because it makes their job easier or some false sense of security.  Further, now companies will benefit from the experimentation of their employees efforts with the devices that work best. When workers see other workers solutions are better, they will switch on their own dime. Great for everyone, including IT.

Here is the complete article at the New York Times.

More Offices Let Workers Choose Their Own Devices

Enter the Internet, aka “The Cloud”. And now, welcome to the Cloud Network for Business. When Disruptive Technology matures, it goes head to head with the traditional and in this case, it just flat out wins. The Cloud is quickly maturing.

Problems on the Internet? Problems in the Cloud? Sure.

But who are we kidding. Traditional IT sucks and it is so expensive.

I think this is Brad Peters’, Contributor Forbes.com, main point. Efficiency wins in the long term. As he says, and I strongly agree, the Cloud Backlash is in full swing. His article regarding Frank J. Ohlhorst’s recent case for the anti-cloud camp really lays the foundation for the case for the cloud itself mostly by the stuff left out.

So, are there problems on the Internet? Many. Are there Problems with Cloud Computing? Absolutely.

Is traditional IT inaccessible, unsecured, fraught with problems, supported by people with a conflict of interest with their jobs being gone and budgets being slashed? You betcha.

And the Cloud, like the Walkman, is not only cheaper, your workspace becomes your Desktop Anywhere. And that is a big deal.

Here is the article:

The Cloud Diagnosed By IT. And It Isn’t Pretty