Google Chrome OS: Dawn of the Cloud Computing era!

I guess you may have read our research paper where we describe the fundamental shift from Daap–>IaaP. This is what Google is bringing to us. This is perfect timing from Google. When founders Sergey and Larry approached Eric Schmidt on their grand plans to develop an operating system for the internet, he was a bit wary of the idea. soon it began to happen and the economy wasn’t really heplful either in letting all the big houses rob consumers of their cash while businesses were suffering.

Economic downturn really woke a lot of businesses up. Funny thing is today I talk to customers in both established and emerging markets, more so in emerging markets and I only hear the use of IT as a service. People, we are at brinf of the kondratieff wave which I have been talking for a couple of years by now. It may sound a bit disappointing and painful for all the vendors selling all that IT gear — both software and hardware — but sorry reality is upon us. Businesses are screaming and shouting at us to take this IT away from them! This onbiously means that we (as IT service providers) have to break those barriers.

Google is on its own path breaking the desktop control. I never truly belived in the traditional VDI kind of solutions and really undestood that controlling those employees as “wage slaves” was not the way companies want to go ahead. They want to empower these users. These users are the new generation that ius born and brought up with Google. They will very easily choose for Google OS. And for all you know, it might be free!

Chrome may be the dream first conceived by Phoenix Technologies, the company that provides the BIOS in most of our machines, came out with an emergency browser embedded in a PC’s firmware. The idea was if there was an unrecoverable problem in the operating system, the user could activate the firmware browser to retrieve patches, download new software and run Web-based diagnostics. But in this scenario, the Phoenix browser only existed as a supporting application for when Windows couldn’t start.

What gives Chrome the ability to boot up in 7 seconds is that it’s not running all the drivers and applications that Windows and other operating systems control. In fact, Chrome has little interaction with its host machine, increasing its power efficiency when running online applications and unclogging all the internal pipes that are normally jammed with applications running in the background.

Google is unabashed in saying that Web application developers need only apply for supporting Chrome. If cloud computing is the wave of the future and growing as fast as all the vendors and analysts want us to believe, is there any reason to think that we’ll need big footprint and powerful operating systems? Won’t cloud computing usher in an era of lightweight netbooks, thin-clients and virtual machines? And, if that’s the case, won’t Chrome be the standard bearer for this new generation of computing?

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