5 cloud computing takeaways for 2013

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

Why wouldn’t you want a dynamically scalable infrastructure and self-service provisioning? That’s the cloud model in a nutshell — and it has proven itself to the degree where you have to ask why you wouldn’t adopt it, rather than why you would. There remain reasons not to, of course. Why switch to SaaS versions of enterprise applications, for example, when your old client-server deployment is working just fine?

Not to mention all sorts of compliance and security reasons to be conservative about core applications that differentiate a business. But in 2013, it became clearer than ever that both the private and public cloud — particularly the latter — provide the platforms of choice if you want to stay competitive…

Engaging with customers, partners, and soon the vast array of sensors known as the Internet of things requires an infrastructure that scales like blazes due to unpredictability of demand and also provides a platform for continuous experimentation. A whole lot happened in 2013. But I’m keeping this list of lessons learned short in order to point the spotlight on stuff that mattered most:..

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