Cloud Computing And Enterprises: Proof That Opposites Can Attract

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Everything the cloud stands for is diametrically opposed to what enterprise computing stands for. But that’s okay — cloud promises to free up and expand enterprises in ways never imaginable with traditional systems. That’s one of the key takewaways of a talk given by Chris Kemp, founder of Nebula, co-founder of OpenStack and former CTO of NASA, speaking at the Compute Midwest conference.

Following the definition established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), cloud computing “as an on-demand, elastic, metered and accessible resource computing service,” says Kemp. However, from an enterprise computing perspective, “this is exactly the opposite of the way you think about computing,” he continues…

“Enterprise computing is on-approval, static, private, purchased, and fundamentally inaccessible. Every single core tenant of cloud computing is literally opposed by a different philosophy in business. One of the challenges people have with cloud computing is it completely breaks every paradigm.”…

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