But a growing number of my clients are either moving towards cloud based applications or having their client-server applications hosted externally and connecting remotely.
Clients should also inquire as to how their data is being stored so as to be able to identify which servers hold their data and whether it can reside on a public or private (i.e. single client-dedicated) cloud.
For example, if the cloud detects that the client has high-end graphics, it can let the client do some rendering, transmitting abbreviated math that describes the function to be rendered, rather than forcing the server end to do the work centrally and ship lots of pixel values down the line.
As a young startup launching a cloud-based platform called Clio, we needed to select which mobile client(s) to support and decided to skip the Research In Motion BlackBerry.
Cloud Ready Client makes use of instrumentation that Intel has embedded in its new Sandy Bridge-generation processors (which explains why Lenovo introduced the capability at IDF).