In a September article, published on AlwaysOn, Irving Wladawsky-Berger shares his perspective on Cloud Computing and how IT is entering its Cambrian age. While making the Cambrian age case, the article discusses a variety of computing models, and corresponding business drivers. As the article concludes, Wladawsky-Berger shares why Cloud Computing is relevant for most companies and institutions:
“At its essence, Cloud computing is about delivering a wide variety of consumer and business services to large numbers of clients around the world, as well as operating highly scalable, well engineered, efficient data centers to deliver those services with high quality and reasonable costs. That’s what businesses generally do. Clouds are thus relevant to most companies and institutions in one way or another, as providers of services, – in-house or through a Cloud service provider, – or as users, – individuals, small businesses or large enterprises, – availing yourself of the services they provide.
Once more, standards like SOA will make it possible to integrate new Cloud optimized workloads and platforms with a company’s existing infrastructure. And, once more, innovations like those described in the Warehouse-Scale Computing paper will find their way into legacy systems and applications and transform them over time.
When all is said and done, Cloud computing is introducing not just a major new model of computing, but, even more important, a new model for conducting business and interacting with clients, employees, partners and all stake-holders of the institution. This new Cambrian stage of IT is already giving rise to many new innovations, not only in classic computing but in many of the new life forms that now incorporate digital components, software, and are connected to the Internet. It is very important for companies to learn how to leverage these new innovations in their business.
In evolution, it is very costly to be left behind. So, it is very important for all companies and institutions, regardless of age or size, to figure out what this new model of computing means for their particular industry and how it best applies to them. And, like with e-business a dozen years ago, they should all get on the learning curve by doing some marketplace pilots, learn from their experiences and ensure their ability to continue evolving into the future.”
Read the full article. [Also available on Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s blog.]
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