In recent news, tech giants such as Google, Intel and Dell, among others in the IT and cloud computing space, have joined hands to form a consortium. Named as the Modern Computing Alliance, this consortium will tackle problems related to security, remote working environments, and other enterprise issues.

Speaking of its participation in the alliance, Google Chrome Vice President John Solomon wrote in a blog post, Our collective mission is to drive silicon-to-cloud innovation for the benefit of enterprise customers, fueling a differentiated modern computing platform and providing additional choice for integrated business solutions.

As per the alliance, the initial focus areas will include performance, security and identity, remote work and productivity, and health care. The end goal would be to pool knowledge and resources to identify shared problems across enterprises and how cloud solutions can be leveraged to ease the whole new normal in working environments. The alliance also looks at establishing new standards and technologies from the partner companies that can be used by anyone.

Solomon also mentioned in the blog that the alliance would look at employing faster and more responsive enterprise progressive web applications (PWAs). It also aims at introducing cloud-first cultures and devices that will provide ease of management and insights on the fully integrated stack. Modern Computing Alliance is committed to developing an integrated roadmap that makes the best use of our collective experience, insights and expertise while giving us a clear path forward to improve customer choice and the enterprise computing market, he added.

The alliance, which also has companies such as Box, VMWare, Zoom, Slack, RingCentral, Citrix, Okta as its founding partners, has developed a roadmap to deal with the most pressing challenges in end-user computing. Some of the solutions suggested by the alliance include

The founding stones for this alliance were laid even before the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview, Solomon said that the initial discussion for forming such a consortium was conducted during the Consumer Electronics Show in 2019 at Las Vegas with limited partners. However, with the onset of the pandemic, the companies decided on expanding their scope further and include partners like Slack and Zoom, which has gained massive prominence in how corporates were operating now.

The group is also inviting as many IT professionals as it can to build a council of experts who would identify and resolve major problems. To further attract the best talent, the alliance has also listed benefits of joining the council. They include:

Cross company collaboration and alliance as this one is not rare. The earlier examples of similar collaborations include the 1991s Advanced Computing Environment consisting of Compaq, Microsoft, MIPS Computer Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the Santa Cruz Operation, and the AIM Alliance consisting of Apple, IBM, and Motorola.

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The main product from Advanced Computing Environment was the introduction of the Advanced RISC Computing specification, just before the alliance finally dissolved due to infighting.

The AIM Alliance was slightly more successful, and it developed the PowerPC CPU family, the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) hardware platform standard, and also laid the foundation for Apples Power Macintosh computer line.

It seems that the new Modern Computer Alliance is led by Google as of now and it would be interesting to see what comes off this collaboration.

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