For the past two years, media and vendors alike have proclaimed the cloud to be the next wave of IT — promising to change computing as we know it. The reactions of many IT veterans who have lived through similar marketing barrages in the past have ranged from a cautious wait-and-see attitude to out-and-out skepticism. We’ve now reached a point where cloud success stories have steadily begun to appear, the initial generation of cloud-enablement tools have been released, and an understanding of appropriate cloud use cases have emerged. The result is that cloud is now becoming not just a feasible option, but in the minds of many, an inevitable option.
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Which Cloud Should Be in My 10-Day Forecast?
Posted by: Jim Damoulakis April 6, 2011 05:00 AMFor the past two years, media and vendors alike have proclaimed the cloud to be the next wave of IT — promising to change computing as we know it. The reactions of many IT veterans who have lived through similar marketing barrages in the past have ranged from a cautious wait-and-see attitude to out-and-out skepticism. We’ve now reached a point where cloud success stories have steadily begun to appear, the initial generation of cloud-enablement tools have been released, and an understanding of appropriate cloud use cases have emerged. The result is that cloud is now becoming not just a feasible option, but in the minds of many, an inevitable option.