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Internal or external clouds, the advent of multi-tennant hosting is a game changer. Peoples roles as IT practitioners will change, and the role of IT itself is evolving in the context of purchasing IT as a Service. I have few thoughts that can be found herehttp://blogs.netapp.com/speakout/ but I want to learn more.
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HI Gary,
I'm still surprised that the "cloud" is still so much affiliated with remote storage, and consequently the data security aspects for stored data. It's just now that I really here talking about the elastic computing aspects within public cloud offerings which are much more interesting. We have been storing data in the cloud for eons, note that SSP's have come, gone, returned, and been re-invented a million trillion ways. So many of the current 'gotcha's' that are up for discussion, especially those around security have long been discussed, dialoged and in many ways solved, or at least understood with respect to the trade-offs one makes. It's the new nomenclature and new simple access methods; put, get, delete, list which seem to have added the twist to our modes of thinking around cloud computing. I think that the biggest gotcha is yet to happen; the cloud for me represents disintermediation, cutting out of the middleman. It’s a pure application play that has yet to happen in a big and exciting way, mostly because the thinking has been around remote storage vs. application development. In the dot com era, if you had a good idea, you wrote a one page teaser, went and got some venture capital, hired a bunch of programmers, oops I forget, if you were really smart you hired the marketing people first, programmers second; anyway, the next thing on your list was a call to Exodus to rent a 10x10 cage and lease some servers so you can host your invention. How has the cloud truly disintermediated that process; you wake up in the morning write your application or better yet; re-write [good old fashion] copy something that’s already successful; port your Python code to Google or use Amazon EC2 and you my friend are off to the races with as much infrastructure behind you as Salesforce.com had on day one, two and three. Real whacks at disintermediation at a large level has yet to happen, it will, not sure what the time line is. We just have to get past thinking that the “cloud” is a hard drive in the sky. I think that was called an Xdrive.
Good Luck,
Peter
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