Since the 60s, business computing has developed along a number of lines with Web and Web 2.0 being the most recent evolution. Web included basic websites and e-commerce. Web 2.0 introduced blogs, social networking, cloud based applications and other hosted services.
Web 3.0 is full computing in the cloud. Everything is changing in business computing. Companies, large and small, are forgoing the purchase of new servers, workstations and software to move their network operations to the cloud. Why make large capital expenditures with high and unpredictable maintenance costs, when you can rent it monthly along with an IT staff and significantly reduce business risk? The cost saving in telecommunications alone for multi-office businesses saves enough to pay for the whole cloud service in many cases.
Large enterprises have been using private cloud for several years. However, since the Internet only recently started to offer significant bandwidth at an affordable price around the turn of the millennium, cloud computing for small to medium business has been somewhat of a late developer.
Web 3.0 is the virtual private cloud. Full capability local area network for any size business in a completely cloud-based virtual private infrastructure. This includes servers, backups, workstations, antivirus, email, spam filter as well as monitoring and managing the network.
Companies will no longer buy application software, just rent it with their cloud network. It is accessible from anywhere, secure, and highly redundant housed in disaster hardened data centers.
Web 3.0 is here.
David Levin
Founder, Cloudspace USA
The next generation Internet computing