I believe this to have utilities in a lot of business use cases. In Investment Banking / Business Consulting, excel financial models can get to a size that is no longer suitable to be run on personal computers.
Of course, analysts are not going to all of sudden learn programming and they are still going to use Excel to do their work. If you could get the UI smooth enough, this could be the answer to running large excel model.
As an anecdote, some excel models I have seen can take 20 minutes to compute on a personal computer.
@sidazhang Sidney--that's a really great potential use-case. A lot of people ask us why everyone can't just use a Chromebook these days and the reason is because they have about the same sized processor as a smartphone and sometimes you need a bit more than that... Thanks!
@danielkobran Another area is the rendering for 3D animations. It requires a lot of computing power and takes too long to run on a local machine.
I will give this a try and see if the experience is smooth. I am yet to see anything remote to work nicely
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@eriktorenberg@danielkobran if you guys can really deliver that kind of simplicity to the end user as you promise in the video,i believe this will revolutionise the computing industry for the 2d time
best of luck for that !
@eriktorenberg@rahulaswani2 Dillon and I are both designers (ex-architects) and what we are most excited about is designing out that process of adding a new computer, cranking up the storage dial when you run out, sharing your screen without installing software etc. You can do a lot of this stuff already--it's just super technical and cumbersome. Obviously we are both technical people (not trying to put down my own people haha) but even as a technical person, I would rather spend my time working on the stuff I care about. Most of our competitors (Citrix, VMware to name a few) sell exclusively to IT departments so they don't deal with end users. We believe that is fundamentally the wrong approach. We'll have a demo up of our management console soon and hopefully it lives up to your expectations... Thanks so much for your feedback.
So how does this work when it comes to business software people need? Like the AutoCADs, Photoshops but also GIS products and more specific stuff. How do you handle the licensing structure?
@dereckbreuning Sorry for the delay. You can install any program you would normally install on a regular computer. There are no limitations with respect to licensing that we know of. I use all of the programs you just mentioned (completely serious, I used to be an architect). Ultimately, we would like to offer pre-configured machines and on-demand software. So much to do!
@danielkobran thanks ok so you just deliver the desktop OS and updates etc. Al fully preconfigured set of apps for certain types of jobs would be cool yeah! Thanks for the info :)
@kjemperud it says they are focusing on Windows and Linux for now. Other OS-es in the future. So might as well be a thing. I mean there is a Mac mini colocation services around which do kind of the same. But without the (maybe :)) slick interface.
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Cloud streaming is very very exciting and has the potential to change computing as we know it. Our various devices will be "dumb" reflections of the cloud.
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