If you’re using Photoshop on your PC and need to access it over the weekend while visiting family out of town, the last thing you’d want to do is download expensive software to their computer. What if, however, you could still get the Photoshop work done on your aunt’s PC, without downloading a thing?
That’s the thinking behind software startup Numecent’s new platform that will let consumers access programs, games and files remotely.
Numecent announced on Monday a platform that allows applications to be streamed online, so no installation is needed. Thanks to what the company calls cloudpaging technology, you can start using applications in as little as 5% of the time it would have taken for the total download. And to boot, it can even run offline.
“This concept transcends to any kind of software,” a Numecent spokesperson told Mashable. “It also allows platform-shifting, so you can access what’s on your smartphone via a PC or take what’s on your PC and use it on a tablet. It runs at the full native speed of your PC, just like regular software, and the performance quality is the same.”
Here’s how it works: The service essentially chops each application into pieces and sends them to your PC from the cloud based on your need for that particular piece of code at that particular moment. A memory management unit on the PC does the exact same thing — except that it stores the pieces on your hard drive. Ultimately, the pages can be accessed and streamed. Software publishers will also have the ability to track how their products are being used by consumers.
Although these vendors haven’t gone on the record with how this will change the game for them, Numecent said that they are aware of the new platform and are enthusiastic about its possibilities.
“While I can’t go into specifics of the software publishers we are in contact with, I can say that we are in touch with major independent software vendors and all are extremely excited about the potential of Numecent technology, especially the ability to monitor how their software is being used ‘in the wild’ through cloudpaging.”
“The industry is littered with customers who have tried legacy application virtualization, block-streaming or progressive download solutions and who became disenchanted,” said Osman Kent, CEO of Numecent, in a statement. “Some of these approaches failed to live up to their original promise by delivering only 50% of the applications and managed to confuse the terminology of streaming along the way.”
Numecent aims to simplify the process and make it more accessible for users. It’s also launched a spinoff company called Approxy, which focuses on providing the same technology to the cloud-gaming industry.
This means that the Call of Duty game on your PC and be accessed remotely on a friends’s computer when you log in via another computer or mobile device. When done playing and logged out, the game disappears completely on the remote device.
The service is already in beta with its instant HD game delivery service and will offering the platform to game developers and publishers.
Source: Mashable
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