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The Windows 365 Cloud PC

On July 14th 2021 Microsoft announced Windows 365, a cloud service that introduces a new way to experience Windows 10 or Windows 11 (when it’s generally available later this calendar year) for workers from interns and contractors to software developers and industrial designers. Windows 365 takes the operating system to the Microsoft Cloud, securely streaming the full Windows experience—including all your apps, data, and settings—to your personal or corporate devices. This approach creates a fully new personal computing category, specifically for the hybrid world: the Windows 365 Cloud PC. Much like how Microsoft embraced the cloud for other products, MS vision for a Windows 365 Cloud PC is to deliver a new way to experience Windows through the power of the cloud—while solving both novel and traditional challenges for organizations. This new paradigm isn’t just about allowing and securing remote access. The user experience is more important than ever for attracting and retaining talent, improving productivity, and ensuring security. Windows 365 is built on Azure Virtual Desktop, but it simplifies the virtualization experience—handling all the details for you. You can scale processing power and monitor the performance of the Cloud PC to make sure your users are getting the best experience. We’ve also built analytics into the service to look at connection health across networks to make sure your Cloud PC users can reach everything they need on your network to be productive. From the Endpoint Analytics dashboard, you can easily identify the Cloud PC environments that are not delivering the performance needs of a given user, and not only can you get recommendations, but you can also upgrade them at the touch of a button, which is immediately applied without missing a beat. Our new Watchdog Service also continually runs diagnostics to help to keep connections up-and-running at all times. If a diagnostic check fails, we’ll alert you and even give suggestions for how to correct the issue.  For greater customization and flexibility, especially if your organization has virtualization expertise, Microsoft recommend Azure Virtual Desktop, which continues to see significant adoption as organizations modernize VDI in the cloud. You can read more about MS increased investments in Azure Virtual Desktop in today’s Tech Community blog.

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Bulut Bilişim

Cloud Pc yani kendi dilimize çevirecek olursak bulut bilişim, insanların veya şirketlerin dijital ortamlarda medya, dosya ve veri saklama ihtiyacından doğmuş bir çözüm sistemidir. Verileri, dosyaları ve medyayı saklama alanı olarak geliştirilen donanımsal araçlar yetersiz gelmeye başlayınca insanlık bulut bilişimin temellerini atmaya başladı. Bulut bilişim, izin verilen yazılımlarla sanal ortamda saklama alanı oluşturma sistemidir. Veriler buraya belirli programlarla aktarılır ve hafızada tutulmaya başlanır. Bu şekilde hem kişisel olarak kullanılan bilgisayarların veyahut benzer dijital araçların belleklerindeki doluluk oranı azaltılmış olur hem de hafıza doldurulmadığı için performans artışı gözlenmiş olur. Erişimi olan kişiler yine istediği zaman bu programlar aracılığıyla ulaşmak istediği veriye erişebilir.

Faydaları

Bulut bilişimin insanlığa birçok faydası bulunmaktadır. Bunların kişisel yararlarından bahsedecek olursak saklama alanı için ek donanım gerektirmediği için maliyet azaltıyor. Erişim sağlayan yazılımlarına web üzerinden ulaşılabildiği için tek bir platform üzerinden erişim sağlama bağımlılığını ortadan kaldırıyor birçok dijital ortamdan erişim sağlanabiliyor. Bu hizmeti veren firmalar güvenlik önlemlerini de aldığından kişisel bilgisayarlarda saklanan verilerden daha güvenli şekilde saklanmaktadır. Bu hizmeti kullanan şirketler için yararı da sunucularına erişirken gerekli olan yetki ve erişim takibini ortadan kaldırmasıdır. Aynı zamanda donanımsal olarak oluşturulması gereken altyapının gerekliliğini ve karmaşını büyük ölçüde azaltır. Bu da şirketleri maliyet ve performans açısından rahatlatır.

Cloud Pc Dezavantajları

Following up on my recent post about the CloudPC, I've just learned about a new project which is much closer to my original proposal, but with a twist. A very good twist.

The Keepod is a USB stick that contains a simple operating system and storage. As explained in this BBC article about the Keepod, the goal is to give people in the developing world their own personal and portable computing environment. They simply take their Keepod with all their programs and data on it, and plug it into any available networked computer. For the Keepod's target base, that's likely to be an old or recycled PC. When they're done using it, they unplug the Keepod and the next user takes their place.

No one needs to own expensive hardware, everyone gets their own private environment with all their own information on it. It has a lot in common with my original idea, except that where I was thinking about what a privileged Westerner (me) might need, the Keepod inventors are thinking about the needs of people in the rest of the world.

About four years ago, I wrote a post about my ideas for a CloudPC, which would be a small (very small) device that would let you carry your personal computing environment around with you. To use it, you'd just plug it into a 'dock', which would provide all the peripherals, processing power etc. My idea was that the device would be able to make use of the cloud but wouldn't be dependent on it. You could still get work done even if the Internet connection went away.

A recent TechCrunch article describes a new product called TangoPC, which it calls an 'everywhere computer'. The idea is quite similar: TangoPC is a tiny dockable unit about the size of a hard drive, equipped with a CPU, RAM, SSD and various ports and adapters. It plugs into an inexpensive desktop dock, which is used to attach keyboard, screen and other peripherals.

TangoPC differs from my proposal in that it provides a CPU. It is, in effect, an actual computer, whereas my idea was something less. In my proposed CloudPC, the base station would provide the computing horsepower, so that you could get more power by simply plugging your portable environment into a fatter, faster desktop. CPU and RAM were just another 'service' provided by the base station.

There are strengths and weaknesses to both approaches. The computing power of the TangoPC will always be restricted by the power of the CPU that you can fit into that little pocketable box (apparently cooling is a big issue, although the TangoPC makers believe that they've made major progress in this respect). The TangoPC tops out at about "ten times the power of a smartphone." You can't enjoy more power by plugging your portable device into a bigger workstation.

On the other hand, because it's a real computer, the dock can be made cheaper and simpler (an important consideration for a device that will depend on widespread availability of docks). Also, it can actually do useful work on its own: TangoPC will offer an adapter that lets you use it 'on the road' using an iPad as a display, which is a very smart idea.

The TangoPC is in some ways more practical than the CPU-less device that I proposed. The question is whether the available onboard processing power will be enough for all users. Things could go one of two ways. It may turn out that the computing power offered by a pocketable device will be sufficient for the needs of the vast majority of users. The other possibility is that enough users will find themselves limited by such a device that developers of devices like the TangoPC will work on ways to allow a portable device to leverage the additional power in a desktop (or laptop) dock, or even in a regular desktop computer. A standard will emerge allowing computation to be offloaded onto the host machine with its greater resources, through a kind of 'processor sharing' mechanism.

The other element that I expect to see in a CloudPC is a virtual filesystem, with the user's documents stored both locally and in the cloud. This is, in some senses, an evolution of services like Dropbox, but the virtual filesystem will have to go much further. Unless changes in storage technology allow near-infinite storage on a small device, the filesystem will need to intelligently juggle data between the device's own limited storage and a larger backing store in the cloud in such a way that the user is seldom aware of the limitations of the actual device. This means that the filesystem will need to do version management and conflict resolution, as much as possible without user intervention. It will also need to anticipate the user's needs, ensuring that documents or data that the user uses regularly or is likely to need in future are present on the actual device for faster or offline access, while moving little-used documents to the cloud to save space. Doing it right is challenging, but there's plenty of precedent in computer science for solving problems of this kind.