10 things about Cloud Computing you should know..
They should have re-named this year’s Interop “Up in the Cloud” because the dominant theme at this April’s business computing show was the time has come for Cloud computing.
And yet there remains so much that many of us — CIOs very much included — still don’t get about this fundamental shift of computing out of the office, off the desktop and into the Cloud.
So, to clear the air (no pun intended), here are 10 facts gleaned from Interop keynoters and panelists that just may be news to you:
“It’s the most important thing happening”: Lenny Heymann, longtime Interop GM, set the agenda in his opening remarks before an SRO audience at the first-day’s keynote.
“Cloud computing is changing how we do business. This is a platform change that will allow businesses to be more agile.” That’s the point. Cloud computing isn’t about better computing — although it may be that, too — it is about agility.
For businesses today, that is key. Plodding businesses die, the agile survive.
This shift is inevitable: By 2012 only 21 percent of businesses will not use Cloud computing, said one speaker. A related factoid out of Gartner is that, by 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Everything will be Cloud-based and leased.
Collaboration in the Cloud: Fueling the shift into Cloud computing is the need for real-time collaboration tools that let workers, in many locations, work with the same document.
Already Google Docs and Lotus Live are designed with Cloud collaboration in mind. Microsoft’s Office 2010, too, pounces on this tool set. Cloud collaboration just may be the office worker want for 2011. The goal: making file sharing in the Cloud every bit as easy as it now is to type in a URL.
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