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Importance of Mobile Cloud Computing

With computer operations and mobile device technologies expanding to a great extent, cloud computing has been shaping up as the future of web based communications. Mobile platform will be depending heavily on cloud computing in the days to come. Mobile devices have limited storage capacities and mobile cloud computing helps in storing and processing data outside mobile devices. IT professionals are striving each day to face tremendous challenges posed by integration of mobile enterprise applications. MBaaS or mobile back end as a service provides a strong platform for simplifying IT management and saving money.

Reasons why mobile cloud computing is important

Free and open source software platforms have started using the shared computing resources of clouds. We have pointed the top reasons why it is important.

Free Software Providers can benefit greatly

Mobile cloud is a significant opportunity considered by free software providers. Numerous devices being launched regularly, users increasingly ask for free software and free usage in mobile clouds. With billions of mobile device users (and a staggering rise in numbers) free community of software developers can take advantage of the new environments. Open source software greatly benefit from cloud computing. Being a free zone, vendors moving in the mobile cloud territory are battling it out to gain stronghold on users. Free Software Foundation has added great importance to cloud computing. There are companies and individuals who offer services to the public without giving anything back to the community. AGPLv3 is a general public license used by the free software community that is used in building smart applications and actions ensuring user’s freedom.

Colossal Computing

In 2013 it was reported that there were 6 billion mobile users. By 2016 that number has risen with increase in personal computer usage. Internet enabled mobile devices, personal navigators, photo and video cameras and small portable devices are becoming integral part of everyday life. Developing nations will greatly depend on mobile clouds before switching to actual computing.

MBaaS Takes computing to the next Generation

In order to ensure successful and secure running of mobile enterprise applications IT professionals are switching to mobile cloud computing. Developers are introduced to a wide range of tools like software developer kits (SDKs) and unified APIs, thanks to MBaaS. Better security and consolidated back end services make MBaaS a top choice for developers.

Bulk backend tasks (managed and administered by developers) are highly reduced by MBaaS’s plethora of services like geolocation, push notifications, mobile transactions, identity management, data storage and analytics. Need for data transmission to each individual mobile app is eliminated due to consolidated backend services.

Unlimited Resources

Unlimited computing power and storage are basic mobile handset needs. Storage needs to be borrowed from clouds. Devices like high-end navigators store maps and routes locally. They need cloud to receive real-time information on route planning and traffic updates. Accessing mobile data within the cloud is becoming a growing need in the present times.

Applications Functioning on Cloud Computing

Consumers are turning trendier with each passing day. Navigation, data sharing, mapping and collaboration (these are factors taken into account by users) applications function on mobile clouds. Today large numbers of specialty applications are made cloud-friendly to reduce operability snags. Schlage is one such application that operates remotely. Homes can be controlled with the help of mobile devices, thanks to keyless remote operators like Schlage.

Cloud based apps like Shazam and Google Drive offer huge resources to users. Shazam being a music discovery library helps users track scores. Vast reach of the cloud algorithms intrigue users all the time. Users choose external storage over internal storage to choose a smarter way of interaction, mobility and networking. Cloud Computing will spread its predominance depending on markets. Internet using continents will produce bigger markets for Mobile Cloud Computing in the near future.