The cloud allows professionals in any industry to extend their desktops with greater mobility, enhanced capabilities and more computing power – ultimately enabling them to do things they were never able to do before. While storage is an easy entry point into the cloud, we envision designers and engineers using the cloud for more refined capabilities such as high performance rendering, design optimization. simulation and collaboration that were once the exclusive domain of organisations with access to local high-end computing resources. Using the cloud for collaboration and compute-intensive tasks is not only easy to incorporate into one's workflow, but it will help to reduce costs and increase productivity.