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BROWSERS IN A CLOUD-POWERED WORLD John Blossom, President, Shore Communications Inc. 15 February 2012

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In a cloud-powered world, the browser achieves new prominence, both as a productivity-enabler and as a locus of risk. How do fast-moving changes in HTML5 and related standards affect the browser’s ability to serve cloud-driven business securely? How do cloud-mediated innovations like Amazon’s ‘Silk’ browser, and ChromeOS, map to enterprise productivity and security goals? This panel will discuss the changing face of the browser on desktops and mobile devices.

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BROWSERS IN ACLOUD-POWERED WORLD

John Blossom, President, Shore Communications Inc.

15 February 2012

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Risks & Opportunities in the Cloud The world as the cloud platform – The

Second Web Secure browsing for enterprise cloud

computing The mobile world – will browsers edge

out apps? Planning for the browser-based future

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The Second Web: Everything is One Web

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The Multi-function, Multiplatform Web Tablets, Smart Phones, TVs, PCs blend:

Ebooks Social media Video Games Magazines Apps Printable matter

Cross-platform strategies becoming cross-functional

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A Web that Works Like the World We don’t care what it’s called, as long as it

works

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A World that Lives in the Web

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Android Accessory Development Toolkit Makes Any Device or Sensor Web-enabled

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A Web of Data Transactions

Near-Field Communications (NFC) Enable Secure Personal Data Transfer

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Web Programming – HTML 5’s Role Accelerated Programmability –

Rich Javascript programming Application Caching – Online/Offline

Functionality “Canvas” Element – Advanced image

manipulation WebGL – Direct programming of GPUs for graphics Video Codecs – Direct rendering without plugins Device Access – Geolocation, sensors, local data Semantic Structure – Search can now

understand page layouts consistently

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The Rise of Chrome, The Fall of IE

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Secure Programmability as Standard

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Chrome OS: Enterprise Cloud? “Nothing but Chrome” PCs

Netbooks Desktops (mid-2012)

Secure Citrix desktop app tunnelling Secure Apps for Domains

General Motors: 100K+ Education, Government First FISMA-certified secure apps

Do we really care about PCs any more? Should we?

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Chrome for Android: Apps Platform? Full-featured Chrome browser

Less Adobe Flash support Infinite tabs

Downloaded as an app For certified platforms only

Will the HTML 5-enabled mobilebrowser become the new mobileapp container?

Will browsers disintermediatemobile platforms also?

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Amazon Silk: Who’s Watching You? Efficiency yields data snooping? Not all clouds are created equal!

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Planning for a Browser Future Minimize investment in non-browser-based

user apps Focus on sensors, servers and streams serving

browsers Platform-specific apps to insecure, prone to delays

in updates and patches for functions and security Focus I.T. on building rich content sets for

flexible browser consumption Make user hardware disposable wherever

possible “Chromebook” model – keep data safe in the cloud

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