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[Dean]

Startup Numecent has come out of stealth mode today with some of the most impressive enterprise technology we've seen in a decade.

Plus the company is interesting for other reasons, like its business model and its founder.

Numecent offers something it calls "cloud paging" and, if successful, it could be a game-changer for enterprise software, video gaming, and smartphone apps. Red Hat thinks so. It has already partnered with the company to help it offer Windows software to Linux users.

"Cloud paging" instantly "cloudifies" any software, even an operating system like Windows itself, says founder and CEO Osman Kent. It lets any software, with no modification, be delivered from the cloud and run as fast or faster than if the app was on your desktop.

Lots of so-called "desktop virtualization" services work fast. But cloud-paging can even operate the cloud software if the PC gets disconnected from the network or Internet.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/were...entire-software-industry-2012-3#ixzz1oLff0PYn

Wow, stoked to see where this goes! Big claims about performance, lets see if it lives up to the hype.

 

[wily me]

http://www.businessinsider.com/this...he-biggest-problems-with-online-gaming-2012-2

Interesting.

Cloudpaging basically takes a well-known, established enterprise technology, known as desktop virtualization, and applies it to a cloud gaming service.
It promises to speed up cloud gaming by maintaining performance even as gamers pile on the network. It also keeps the game from tanking if too many family members want to access the Internet at the same time (multiple kids playing games while parents watch Netflix, for instance).
And it offers the holy grail of cloud online gaming, we're told ... letting you play even when your device isn't connected to the Internet.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/this...blems-with-online-gaming-2012-2#ixzz1oLj97dXj

 

[Beachless]

Those are some pretty big claims, I also don't like the whole cloud thing.
Sure its great for certain things but handing over all the power to some 3rd party vendor is too risky for me.

 

[nakedpeanut]

What kind of gaming. I can't imagine playing BF3 via the cloud.. There would be way to much lag and dropped images.
For business applications it would be nice as you can remove the need for having a massive IT department by outsourcing to a service like this.

I have my doubts but will be interested to see where this goes.

 

[Elimentals]

I get the remote desktop aspect, but what I find interesting is the off line mode.

Its almost like VMWare ESX meet Splastop Remote to form one product, if I understand it correct. IE: it streams data until interrupted if so it can run off a local "cached" system.

 

[Elimentals]

What kind of gaming. I can't imagine playing BF3 via the cloud.. There would be way to much lag and dropped images.
For business applications it would be nice as you can remove the need for having a massive IT department by outsourcing to a service like this.

I have my doubts but will be interested to see where this goes.

I see you still stuck in the VNC days

Do yourself a fav and check out
http://www.splashtop.com/remote
http://www.onlive.com/

 

[Bern]

Ja, bandwidth. Try doing something that requires decent graphics with a decent sample rate... SA bandwidth is NOT up to scratch.

 

[UnUnOctium]

Amazon got there first I'm afraid. This will be another OnLive