May 12, 2017 at 11:10Data Center Performance in Your Pocket
In this Friday article, we want to reflect on the prospects for the development of the direction of mobile services and applications in the context of using cloud computing to process user data. In our opinion, the trend is growing that personal devices are becoming a thin client for resource-intensive operations.
What are the prerequisites?
Firstly, 20 million Russian users use mobile devices to access information via the Internet and 70% of them visit YouTube and Instagram. This fact indirectly suggests that a large amount of user material (photo and video images) is being processed.
Secondly, an increase in the speed of access to the Internet and its distribution in the regions of Russia. The delay from Yekaterinburg to Moscow is from 25 to 30 ms, and the cost per 100 Mbps is on average 450 rubles. According to mediascope: “The monthly Internet audience as of October 2016 - March 2017 reached 87 million people, which is 71% of the total population of the country.”
Thirdly, every day there are more and more applications that use cloud computing, the user is provided with only a thin client for authentication and downloading basic tools for work. One example is the Playkey service, which transmits an image to a user and receives commands for transmission to the game process. Popular voice assistants on mobile devices such as Siri and Cortana handle user requests in the cloud.
Graphics and computing processors along with solid-state drives will be constantly improved, if for SSD this is an increase in disk space and increased reliability, then processors increase computing power, which in turn makes it possible to perform more operations.
For software manufacturers, performing calculations on their resources can increase control over compliance with licensing policy provisions.
As a result, we are moving towards a trend where the mobile device will only be a screen for playing content, and information will be processed on servers in data centers.
What are the prerequisites?
Firstly, 20 million Russian users use mobile devices to access information via the Internet and 70% of them visit YouTube and Instagram. This fact indirectly suggests that a large amount of user material (photo and video images) is being processed.
Secondly, an increase in the speed of access to the Internet and its distribution in the regions of Russia. The delay from Yekaterinburg to Moscow is from 25 to 30 ms, and the cost per 100 Mbps is on average 450 rubles. According to mediascope: “The monthly Internet audience as of October 2016 - March 2017 reached 87 million people, which is 71% of the total population of the country.”
Thirdly, every day there are more and more applications that use cloud computing, the user is provided with only a thin client for authentication and downloading basic tools for work. One example is the Playkey service, which transmits an image to a user and receives commands for transmission to the game process. Popular voice assistants on mobile devices such as Siri and Cortana handle user requests in the cloud.
Graphics and computing processors along with solid-state drives will be constantly improved, if for SSD this is an increase in disk space and increased reliability, then processors increase computing power, which in turn makes it possible to perform more operations.
For software manufacturers, performing calculations on their resources can increase control over compliance with licensing policy provisions.
As a result, we are moving towards a trend where the mobile device will only be a screen for playing content, and information will be processed on servers in data centers.