Adobe Announces Creative Suite 6 (CS6) Release, Part of its Creative Cloud Services

For a fast-growing startup, such as a design studio, the classic model of buying servers and co-locating them would have involved a lot of upfront cost. Instead of overbuying capacity on the physical servers, figuring out bandwidth and power, and getting spare parts and maintenance contracts, cloud computing lets users get all of that in one flat cost from a cloud provider and focus on innovation and growth for our company and our customers’ benefit.

One aspect of adopting the cloud is learning that you have to trust the cloud with your data. This can be a big step, but seems to be one that more customers are comfortable with. Many organizations already trust all of their communications and documents to cloud offerings, such as Gmail, Scribd, and others.

Now, Adobe (News - Alert) has announced that it will soon launch Creative Suite 6 (CS6). It has also divulged more details on its Creative Cloud software-and-services subscription program. Using the cloud instead of onsite servers and storage is an infrastructure service rental decision. For the enterprises that are evaluating, or have deployed the cloud, there are real benefits. For example, cloud-based services have significantly lower capital cost barriers to deployment than deployment scenarios involving in-house infrastructure. Moreover, the on-demand nature of cloud infrastructure means that, in addition to solutions being deployed more cheaply, they are also deployed faster.

In the case of design features, these kinds of response times are key. In relation to these types of benefits, launches of After Effects CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6 will take place at the NAB tradeshow 2012 in Las Vegas. In addition, sneak peeks will include gradients on strokes and pattern design tools in Illustrator CS6. Adobe will include details of the rest of the suite at the NAB tradeshow and will include InDesign CS6, Flash Pro CS6, Dreamweaver CS6, and Fireworks CS6.