The Future Cloud Operating System
Cloud computing is an on-demand and emergent technology that involves the use of the internet to access servers and applications over the internet (MAHMOOD, 2016). The operating system, on the other hand, is a program loaded into the computers to respond to requests from application programs as well to provide services such as interaction through the command-line interface (Kazmi et al., 2018). With the exponential growth that Cloud computing has had since its development, everything and every sector have experienced both positive and negative impacts arguably (MAHMOOD, 2016). The following is an explanation of how the cloud is or deemed to impact the future Operating system.
Cloud computing has virtualized most of the computing components, such as hardware and software. This virtualization has attracted most of the computing operations into the cloud environment. Just like the other cloud management technologies, hardware virtualization technology has had enormous development, including the development of hypervisor options. The current standard Operating System that computer users occasionally install in their devices cannot realize the already existing virtual environment (Boulton, 2020). This means restricted Operating System performance or less than optimal OS achievement. When a hypervisor provides an additional CPU or storage to the device, the Operating System fails to recognize the same change, and this would require compulsory scaling, which in turn increases size in devices. Scaling is quite wasteful because it at least duplicates components to achieve overhead clusters. These problems inspire the tech giants such as Google and IBM to facilitate Cloud Operating. The possibility of cloud Operating system achievement is discussed as follows.
Efforts put by tech companies to achieve cloud Operating Systems are quite commendable. Google, for example, released the Chrome OS project in the year 2009. The Chrome OS idea is based on Web-based Operating Systems to achieve lightweight computers. The devices are just powered with Chrome as the centerpiece. Another device developed with the concept of the cloud operating system is the Litl Webbook that has a built-in web browser only. All the files, applications, folders, Movies and MP3 hard drive, desktop, etc. are all cloud-based. With the above-provided examples, it is evident that Future Operating will move to the cloud in the future. The cloud-based applications and services (i.e., YouTube, Mint, Google Spreadsheets, Google docs, etc.) replacing the desktop applications are as well already developed. The devices using the cloud-based Operating System might, however, still require a small Operating System for booting processes, and low-cost devices will be achieved.
References
Boulton, C. (2020). Serverless: The future of cloud computing?. CIO. Retrieved 19 April 2020, from https://www.cio.com/article/3244644/serverless-the-future-of-cloud-computing.html.
Kazmi, A., Serrano, M., & Soldatos, J. (2018). VITAL-OS: An Open Source IoT Operating System for Smart Cities. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 2(2), 71-77. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcomstd.2018.1700016
MAHMOOD, Z. (2016). CLOUD COMPUTING. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU.
Xconomy: Will Cloud Computing Kill the Operating System? We’ll Debate That, and Much More, at Cloud3 – Page 2 of 2. Xconomy. (2020). Retrieved 19 April 2020, from https://xconomy.com/boston/2009/11/23/will-cloud-computing-kill-the-operating-system-well-debate-that-and-much-more-at-cloud3/2/.