The Dizzying Economics of Cloud Computing « ARCHIMEDIUS

Had a few minutes today to catch up on some reading from across the blogosphere (surely there's a better word than that isn't there?). Thus a double-posting day to this blog. Nothing like reading to stimulate thinking.

Greg's one of the few writers on the topic of technology infrastructures that always makes sense to me. Thus his blog, Archimedius, is in my Newsgator feed and always gets read sooner or later. As a CIO, particularly a consulting CIO, it's vital to get some help looking over the horizon for input to an evergreen IT strategy.

The thing that really resonated with me in this particular post was his point that "Those enterprises (and regions) stuck with manual labor tech empires will lose." I've been working with clients and as an "inside" CIO to prepare for the transition to cloud-based architectures for some time. Greg's point that "that enterprises should begin planning for the coming shift by automating their network infrastructure and reducing the manual labor and delays inherent in keeping a typical network available and secure." is a great one and should be extended from the network to compute and storage parts of the infrastructure as well.

A good and thought-provoking read.

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Posted by: gregness | May 8, 2009
The Dizzying Economics of Cloud Computing
 
The billowing state of cloud computing -from expansive, hazy definitions to product proclamations establishing a new level of irony for the term ‘vaporware’- has clouded some potentially interesting debates about technology and business and the increasingly strategic importance of the network.

I was on a call recently with some networking executives from Cisco, F5 Networks, Infoblox and VMware preparing for the May 21 Fire panel on infrastructure 2.0 (or dynamic infrastructure) when one of the panelists coined the term ‘just in time IT services’.  There was a pregnant pause as soon as the term crossed the telephone wires."

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