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| Cloud Computing Everywhere |
Four articles in this week's Business Week ("How the cloud computing is changing the world", "Cloud computing: small companies take flight", "Enter the cloud with caution" and "It's 2018: who owns the cloud? Of cloud computing, after a first article of introduction published last April, "Cloud computing: eyes on the skies". And when a term comes to Business Week, the bible of many directors, in the way it has done this, it is an unmistakable sign: you'll get tired of hearing about cloud computing. To such an extent the term is seen as transcendent for the future, which some have even tried to patent it ...
No doubt, the issue has an important importance: as Hugh Macleod comments, cloud computing is the real important battle at the moment in the technological scene: the companies that dominate "the cloud" will be the true actors of the future, with schemes of Concentration due to the very nature of the activity. To those who have been putting our data, our thoughts, our images, our social relations and our entire life in the network, cloud computing is anything but surprising, practically a logical choice derived from working from many sites or many machines . But for companies, things go much further: coming from a past built around applications installed on desktops, brutally oversized and capable of doing many more things than any employee of the company could ever want to do , Thinking about a future of minimalist applications residing on the network and accessible from anywhere is almost anathema. Until you start to try: what is the point of putting each license employee in the hands of a few hundred dollars, so that you can prepare documents in the most sophisticated way possible, when all we need is to write and share easily What he writes with those who work with him? Thus, companies that test applications of this type suddenly find themselves with surprising levels of productivity and satisfaction, and with schemes of work that become much more logical the more they are used.
The idea of companies using application, processing and storage infrastructures in the hands of specialists is not new, comes from the idea of the utility computing of the sixties, when a computer was a very expensive resource that had to be shared. Although the reason has changed, the concept remains the same, and in the light of advances in virtualization, communications, security, and scalability architectures, it becomes much more meaningful. Without a doubt, cloud computing is going to be the big discussion in corporate computing for the coming times.
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