Hardware trends are ever changing & those of us who thought desktop PC to laptop was the final move are incredibly wrong, as netbooks have overtaken laptop sales, but can virtual hosting keep up?
Can virtual hosting keep up with our hardware trends? The IT world is evolving quickly and one phenomenon is quashed by the next. When once, we moved over from the big fat desktop computer to the slimmer, sexier and more flexible laptop computer, we now seem to be shrinking everything in our sight. But is this really the case? Or will we realise – just as we’ve seen in the mobile phone industry – that smaller isn’t always better?
As we chop and change from breeze blocks to microscopic mobiles, and laptops to tiny little netbooks that could easily pass as someone’s address book, there is a lot of fluctuation that modern IT needs to cater for. Virtual hosting is flexible, scalable and highly available – as long as you have access to the internet.
Virtual Hosting for the Netbook
Cloud computing, virtualised servers, SaaS, PaaS, and CaaS? How technology has changed! It is apparent that we now live in the century of virtual hosting on a bunch of clouds and little tiny notebook-style computers that we can almost fit into our back pockets. According to BBC News Online, mobile PCs fell by 14% last year, while netbooks saw an astonishing increase of 264% in sales figures. Not only is this smaller version of the trusty old laptop (and we know we’re soaring high into the future when laptops are labelled as ‘old’), but this tinier sibling is easier to carry, cheaper to purchase, and cheaper to run. With virtual hosting taking off just as fast, will the entire world be transitioning to these little notebook PCs and running them off the virtual cloud? Perhaps. But technology is ever changing, with old concepts being recycled into new ones. Can something that is half the size of your average laptop really be that efficient?
There are both good and bad points to using a computer so small. Whatever computing holds for us in the future, virtual hosting is scalable and flexible enough to alter its fluidity to suit the trends.
Changing Technology and Virtual Hosting
As we indulge in smart phone technology, 3G connectivity and cloud computing, we’re adjusting to the different ways we use our hardware. When once touch screens were difficult to fathom, we now have text geniuses who can write SMS messages at the speed of lightening! We’re smart enough to adapt, and virtual hosting is flexible enough to evolve with us.
Switch Over to Virtual Hosting with SwitchLink
If you would like to start using virtual hosting with your PC, laptop or netbook, get in touch with SwitchLink today.
