Cloud Computing: AWS and the Perils of “BoxThink”
June 27, 2014
Grazed from Greg Ness Blog. Author: Greg Ness.
The next five years ought to be challenging for infrastructure appliance vendors, especially those who see their future “in the box.” We just wrapped up at the AWS Public Sector Summit, held in Washington, DC. An ecosystem of about 3000 attended the 3 day event. Massively disruptive software companies are springing up throughout the AWS ecosystem. It reminded me of the early VMware days, as a robust partner ecosystem appeared out of nowhere.
Amazon AWS is transforming the competitive landscape and ushering in a new era of innovation; the Seattle-based juggernaut is allowing software startups to have strategic impacts in very short periods of time. Business impacts. Operating impacts. Culture impacts. The AWS infrastructure is elastic, almost boundless versus the tired, fractured, stovepipe IT that evolved out of the collision between the mainframe and PC era. It is a dream come true for a new generation of software startups…
Amazon is making traditional IT look like a land of a thousand stovepipes; a highly complex and overly-politicized swamp of certifications, ASICs and shell games…
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