Users could wrest control of their own computing from central IT departments.
Mr. Beckman argued that such a system would reduce the need for smaller universities and labs to spend money on their own computing infrastructure.
"Many UCL students have their own computing equipment and so do not need DSA to purchase a basic laptop," she says.
NEC has suffered from both its own failures and its catastrophic acquisition of Packard Bell, once a PC leader.The struggles of the consumer-electronics giants to bridge the divide have created an opportunity for the Dells, Compaqs and Gateways of the world to use their own computing strengths to push the other way.
A commercial version of the camera would therefore need far less power than cameras that do their own computing, and its batteries would last far longer.The new camera may have another big advantage over standard devices the ability to capture images at terahertz wavelengths, which sit between the infra-red and microwave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Instead of purchasing and maintaining their own computing infrastructure, scientists can now run data-intensive scientific applications in a hybrid environment such as cloud computing by facilitating its vast storage and computation capabilities.
But it could be 10 to 15 years before big companies move to utility computing model: They have too much invested in their own computing infrastructure to throw it out overnight.
To that end, Pro customers have root access, their IDEs can run on dedicated instances, there's support for Docker (with customization options), and customers can use their own computing infrastructures.
Of course, there's still the question of whether or not tablets should be broken out into their own computing category, positioned against the traditional "PCs" when tracking device shipments.
Today, tens of thousands of businesses are forgoing the purchase of their own computing, storage and application resources and just "getting" these from the cloud or "placing" them in the cloud.
