With much of the conversation about Cloud Computing focused on the “Open Cloud Manifesto” it is easy to lose sight of why cloud computing is at the center of almost every tech conversation lately. That is because cloud computing, with its many advantages, is the future.
Just as we have made transitions from vinyl records to cassettes, 8tracks and CD’s to iTunes and Pandora our business processes are making the same evolution from dedicated hardware to virtualization solutions such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Why? Jeff Kaplan identifies several key reasons for the accelerating pace of the transition:
Just as we have made transitions from vinyl records to cassettes, 8tracks and CD’s to iTunes and Pandora our business processes are making the same evolution from dedicated hardware to virtualization solutions such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Why? Jeff Kaplan identifies several key reasons for the accelerating pace of the transition:
- SaaS/cloud computing solutions are delivering measurable business benefits, and generating high customer satisfaction and referral rates.
- Corporate executives and end-users need and want a better way to acquire and utilize technology and business applications to meet their rapidly changing business and workplace requirements.
- A new generation of workers—Generation “F” for Facebook, are entering the market who have grown up online and will demand web-based services to do their jobs.
- Today’s tough economic climate demands that organizations of all sizes fundamentally change the way they do business, and few will resist the temptation to revamp the way they procure and use technology and applications so they can get a lower price and higher ROI.
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