Cloud Computing: Believe the hype

Grazed from NewsWorks.org.  Author: Todd Bookman.

The tech industry has a habit of getting ahead of itself.  An idea comes along, investors talk it up, the media catches wind…suddenly, the thing is plastered on every front page and home page, ink on the patent application still drying. Before you can mutter the word ‘disruptive,’ though, doubt slowly creeps in, backlashers begin their backlash, and the bubble is burst.

The people at Gartner, a Connecticut-based research and consulting firm, spend a lot of their time thinking about that cycle. They put out a chart each year, in fact, called the Hype Cycle, that tries to measure what stage different technologies are in, and how fast they’ll move through those stages…

"The shape of the curve, if you can imagine it, it rises up like a mountain peak in the beginning to describe the fact that this technology is quite exciting," says Hung LeHong, an analyst at Gartner.  This first phase of the Hype Cycle is called the "innovation trigger." On the upward slope, you’ll find not-quite-yet-household-name technologies like bioacoustic sensing and volumetric displays…

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