Cloud computing

To show how the Internet can allow mobility, I would like to talk about virtual offices and cloud computing. A virtual office is a computer program, which centralizes (stocks) our computer data on a distant server. The user can access is personal data from everywhere. He just needs a computer, a smartphone or a numeric tablet and a good Internet access. The virtual offices also offer the possibility to work online on some programs. It often reproduces classical computer offices and it has the same functionality.

Apple is about to appropriate this idea of the cloud computing with its iCloud. With iCloud, you can synchronize your iPhone, your Macbook, you iPad or your iPod and have access to the same content (music, photos and applications) for free. It automatically actualizes your mails, your address book and your calendars.

It appears that cloud computing could be the future of the Internet and shows that the Internet allows more and more mobility.