| Hans, while I totally agree with you on the technology site (and I've been in IT for 25 years), what is meant by "cloud" today has more business connotation than technical. It's the IT as a utility, and the key is accountability, charging, pay-per-use, etc...
And yet, there is innovation in technology too: for example, platform as a service where infrastructure components are delivered to you as a service. This has not been done before. Today you can basically build your entire app with on-line components. While it is driven by and based on "improved internet connections" (as you correctly noticed), the outcome is strategically different.
Is it evolutionary more than revolutionary? Probably. But, this evolution is so exciting when the entire mindset of how people use IT. Both privately (charge-back, IT as a service to other departments, etc.), and publicly (PaaS, SaaS, etc... are becoming main stream).
Something similar had happened with mobile phones. The technology itself (radio, cells) was available for years. It's the economics, business models, and wide adoption that created a mobile revolution. The phone was invented in late 19th century, and radio a bit later. It took another 80 years to bring it all together so it made a huge difference...
My .02c
Posted by Vadim Rosenberg |
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