14 DAY TRIAL // Cloud is a concept that has been seeing more and more use over the past year, and ASUS now wants to make a veritable leap forward as far as its customers are concerned.
Cloud is the term that the IT industry now uses to refer to the online storage of files and services that used to only be possible to hold on a local HDD, or whatever other storage device a PC/mainframe happened to use.
The idea was made possible by the advancements in Internet bandwidth and the convenience of having content available from any device.
It started out with e-mails and has now sunk its tendrils in video, photo, documents, games, professional services, enterprise file storage and backup, even security.
Consumers still don't really use it much though, since it is just more convenient to store everything on a local HDD, memory card or SSD.
With tablets and phones gaining more and more PC-like capabilities though, the convenience of having a means to access your files from anywhere is a lot more appealing.
Knowing this, ASUS promised a “total” ubiquitous cloud computing solution and said it would formally unleash it during Computex Taipei, 2012.
The ASUS Vibe online content store will doubtlessly be one of the service's highlights, along with file and folder syncing (probably).
“ASUS believes in the open philosophy, we will unveil our total solution for the ubiquitous cloud computing at Computex this year,” reportedly stated Jonney Shih, chairman of ASUS.
When looking at the worldwide IT industry, there is definitely a proactive mindset in regards to this matter, and we aren't just talking about Apple's iCloud here.
Dell, for example, bought Wyse just to get some of this expertise, OCZ negotiated a private cloud contract for its Deneva 2 SSDs, Amazon's cloud has been doing better than expected and even Intel made a point of giving its latest Xeon CPUs advanced security (down to real-time data encryption and decryption) just to make prospective enterprise customers believe more in the cloud.