Influencing User Changes

Abstract

During the past decades, the IT industry has had several cycles of evolution, from mainframes to distributed computing and then to Cloud. Today, most computation is done at server-side and the client side is used mainly for showing the computation results. The terminals can be a desktop, a laptop, a netbook, or a smartphone. Cloud further consolidates computation at the back-end. Unrestricted by the performance of the terminals, applications and data can be stored in the back-end of Clouds, with their computation and analysis performed within the Clouds as well. Since network transmission technology has been greatly enhanced by 3G/4G, the client side’s Cloud terminal would serve the simple function of calling for and displaying the end results. Users can carry out sophisticated computing tasks on these Cloud terminals without investing in high-end machines.