Cloud Computing Pushes Vendors to Seek New Roles in IT Value Chain

Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.

It’s obvious that cloud computing imposes vast change within IT organizations. I’ve written repeatedly on this topic, addressing issues such as cost allocation, job opportunities, automation requirements, security and the relationship between application and operations groups.

Cloud computing represents the most profound change in computing that the industry has ever seen. The reason is simple. Cloud computing is not just a platform change implementing a better price/performance capability based on Moore’s Law. It represents, instead, a move to an automated computing capability. In this sense, it is akin to what mass production brought to automobile manufacturing, a change so profound that our entire society is completely different than it was before Henry Ford married an assembly line to standardized manufacturing…

With the Cloud Comes Small, But Frequent, Purchases

While I’ve written extensively about the big changes that cloud computing brings to end user IT, I haven’t spent much time focusing on vendors’ role in this new world. That doesn’t mean that cloud computing won’t bring equally significant changes to the vendor side of the equation; in fact, the changes will be just as wrenching for vendors, with an equal transformation forced on them by the characteristics associated with the cloud…

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