Gartner's outlook for the next few years shows a steady migration toward cloud computing, driven at first by cost and then by quality of service.
The rise of mobile computing, driven by Apple, killed off Microsoft's regulator-attracting desktop dominance.
Given the economic advantages of online businesses - advantages that will grow as utility computing drives the costs of data processing and communication even lower - traditional companies may have no choice but to refashion their own businesses along similar lines, firing workers in the process.
His laboratory's Project Oxygen is building an office on MIT's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that will be wired to demonstrate the kind of "pervasive, human-centred computing", driven by voice and involving a range of devices, that he believes will become possible in the near future.
Fabric computing, driven by NVMe-over-fabric, is close to becoming a reality.
Now we'll go beyond to public computing, driven by interactions with relative strangers via a public computing infrastructure, of which the most visible aspect will be an impersonal touch-paint environment.
"It's clear to many that we are on the cusp of a major new shift in computing, driven by a fully decentralized internet and by new, decentralized models of trust and security, powered by blockchains and distributed ledgers," Golub writes in a blog post today.
As we have shown, cloud computing drives down infrastructure costs both up-front and on an on-going basis, and offers operational advantages, such as setting up infrastructure in minutes rather than months, completing massive computational projects with a large number of resources quickly, and scaling the architecture up and down to provide the required computational resources.
Seagate Technology is back in the lead of one of the most cyclical and cruel businesses in computing disk drive manufacturing and technology although the changes that have led to the turnaround were instituted well before the ink changed from red to black.
