Netbook and Cloud Computing: Complimentary or Competition?

The development of the Netbooks is based on the fact of being lighter, smaller and cheaper, allowing computers to be simpler. However, as we pursue being light weight, have we lost the computing power? Cloud Computing maybe the solution to this.

Cloud Computing can be viewed as a distributed computing technique, breaking up one’s computing needs into countless smaller sequences, and distributing them over various servers via the internet. Once completed, they will be sent back to the user.

However, user of Cloud Computing technology does not need to comprehend the complex computing algorithm in the background. From a layman’s perspective, Cloud Computing is a service that brings huge computational power to the user via the internet. User information is not stored in the terminal server but rather in the “Cloud” infrastructure delivered through data centers. However, this does not matter to the end user. What is important is that so long as a user is able to connect to the internet, these computational data will be readily at his disposal.