How DaaS will change the way we think about Personal Computers!
By: Kisan Tamang | Original Article
Back in the day, computers were mainly used by big companies and universities for research purposes. It was expensive and large that used to occupy the whole room — thousand of square feet and slow.
The iPhone in your pocket has 100,000 times more compute capacity than the computer that landed mankind on the moon in 1961 by NASA’s Apollo Mission.
The computer called Apollo Guidance Computer(AGC) was guiding the mission which had only 0.043MHz and 2048 words of memory which was used to store temporary results.
We have come along in time. Those things feel like a century ago. Today we can have 96,000,000,000 bits of memory in our smartphone and more.
Computing capacity over the year has increased significantly failing Moore's laws — according to which numbers of transistors per silicon double every year.
When AWS launched its compute service called EC2 back in 2006, the whole cloud business has taken a new shape. You could get a virtualized Operating System within a minute by just clicking a button or executing a script. Isn’t that magical?
Today we use cloud computing every day. Even if you are noticing it. We use google photos to store our photos and Onedrive to store our files and many more.
Those big tech giants provide a lot of things as a service that was seemed impossible few years back.
In the tech business today, there is this new concept called Desktop as a Service (DaaS). In this article, we will see some of the concepts of it and how it will change (I believe) the personal computer business.
My Experience with DaaS
Let me tell you a little about my experience with Shells — a Californian-based tech company providing Desktop as a Service (DaaS) using cloud computing.
DaaS is a new way to give you a personal desktop computer as a service using the power of cloud computing technology. It is a virtualized desktop backed by fleets of cloud computers and all you need is just an internet connection and it can be used on any kind of device — tablets, mobile, and laptops.
I have been using DaaS for a while now. And I was thinking a lot about it and experiment in my D2D job as well. You can give it a try too. Sign up here.
I tried using LibreOffice Calc.
I used it to code the whole day. And I do not feel any issue with it. It was a native desktop experience. The only issue I got was some lag on graphics. This most probably issues with my internet speed. And also the server I am using is in Japan. So, there must be some high latency.
First I installed VSCode.
And ran some Nodejs application on it. The overall experience is really good.
So, does it worth using DaaS?
I strongly believe the service will go even further to give you a native desktop experience and run the desktop machines on your phones, tablets anywhere.
We have been adopting cloud technology aggressively these days and people are loving it because it is convenient and portable. I believe the same goes with DaaS.
What are the benefits of using DaaS?
Let me tell you some of the advantages here:
1. It is Reliable
It is reliable for everyone. And I strongly believe that people will be using it for more things just like what you are doing with a real personal computer.
2. It is Affordable
DaaS can be used at an affordable price and if you want to close your account, you can do it within a second. No problem.
3. It has Enhanced Security
DaaS is secured by a group of highly skilled professionals and I believe there shouldn't be an issue until you expose your account credentials publicly.
4. It is Powered by powerful Cloud computers
Cloud computing is awesome. You can get the power of supercomputers as a service and only pay for what you use and cancel the subscription at any time. DaaS is the same thing.
Who is it for?
As a software engineer, I tried coding on it. Due to its early stage, there might some issues with it but in the long run, it can be useful for anyone — Students, coders, engineers, publishers. Literally anyone.
