{"id":1494,"date":"2012-05-10T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/may\/10\/gartner-predicts-personal-cloud-will-quickly-eclipse-pc\/"},"modified":"2012-05-10T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:49:13","slug":"gartner-predicts-the-personal-cloud-will-quickly-eclipse-the-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gartner-predicts-the-personal-cloud-will-quickly-eclipse-the-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner predicts the personal cloud will quickly eclipse the PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report from Gartner has indicated that the personal cloud will overshadow the PC as the main element of consumers&rsquo; digital lives by 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The IT analysts claim the rapid growth in the usage of apps has led to this verdict, meaning a sea-change in how consumers stream, share and synchronise content providing more flexibility, user satisfaction and productivity with the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gartenberg, research director at Gartner and co-author of the report, said: &ldquo;The personal cloud isn&#8217;t a single offering, but a reflection of consumers&#8217; expectation that their content will flow seamlessly as the result of a combination of services that overlap the consumer, business and government domains.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that, as no company has complete dominance of the field, &ldquo;the stakes are high&rdquo; &ndash; in essence, the competition will only improve the services currently available.<\/p>\n<p>An example here is that, with the release of Google&rsquo;s personal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from Gartner has indicated that the personal cloud will overshadow the PC as the main element of consumers&rsquo; digital lives by 2014.<br \/>\nThe IT analysts claim the rapid growth in the usage of apps has led to this verdict, meaning a sea-change &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}