William Vach (1/18/2013)
I think that before we get there storage/RAM on a laptop will become a moot point. We will have virtual machines in a cloud that we will access with a tablet/phone/desktop like device from wherever we are. The virtual machines will have whatever we need or have contracted for and can grow or shrink based on our usage.
Yes and no. The grow/shrink is for scalable applications. However, there are potentially things we do that aren't so scalable and we'd be limited to the size of one VM. Maybe that will change, especially as developers get better writing scalable software.
However we do need some sort of backup system, and the cloud doesn't do it now. We need a way to keep things private, or secure, in a way the cloud doesn't offer.
Lots of cloud services are amazing and I think many will work inside companies, but lots will also require the "cloud" infrastructure to exist inside a company data center. For legal/security/etc purposes. I want the same idea of PaaS, but on my company's servers at some scale.