Chromebooks Will Shake Up Enterprise Computing

by Curt Hall

Google's introduction of the Chromebook has serious implications for cloud computing and IT -- and threatens to shake up enterprise computing. Google is hoping that companies will find Chromebook's reduced maintenance and lower cost of ownership too good to resist. But Google does not expect companies to embrace Chromebook overnight. Rather, the company is betting that Chromebook adoption will gain momentum as organizations warm up to the concept -- just as has been the case with cloud computing, in general.