Get Your Server Rental Now, The Future of Cloud is How

I’ve been harping about the prevalence of the cloud evolution for quite some time. But there’s no need to take just my word for it – statisticians and analysts aplenty have been toting the figures.

And we’ve seen it here in the server rental business, as several cloud-related clients have come forward to rent servers. Google runs on nearly a million different servers and we imagine Amazon isn’t far behind.

As a few cases in point: CDW said that nearly forty percent of enterprises were embracing cloud computing. And last year, Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry came forward stating that the local markets were predicted to grow $29.2 billion by 2015. And lastly, Forrester Research analysts predict that SaaS will outgrow all other cloud services, growing by half by 2012.

All of this gobbledygook means that the cloud is here to stay -- particularly in its Software as a Service (SaaS) incarnation.

And it seesm that Forrester made the best call of all, as evidenced by today’s Native Client development from Google. First Google saturated the market with cloud-based Chromebooks. Now it’s released a Chrome-based Native Client that lets web browsers "run-compiled native code."

Web apps and native apps can now be unified. Hurray!

The new Native App will allow Chrome users to execute C and C++ code within the browser without sacrificing security. According to the big G, "Native Client apps use Pepper, a set of interfaces that provide C and C++ bindings to the capabilities of HTML5. As a result, developers can now leverage their native code libraries and expertise to deliver portable, high performance web apps."

Sounds good. Especially for game developers.