Creative destruction and the cloud: Why it’s a good thing
October 10, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Harvey Koeppel.
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." — Jef Raskin, creator of the initial concepts that became the Apple Macintosh computer, as quoted in Dr. Dobb’s Journal.
I must admit that I have heard many descriptions of computing but, when I came across this exploding-shoe metaphor, it was (a) different, and (b) caught my attention. Then again, I have always been fascinated by what people have to say about technology, especially new technology, and especially new technology that is disruptive by its nature. Here are a few of my favorites:…
Computers that weigh 3,000 pounds and wet pants in winter aside, one notion that the experts seem to agree upon is that cloud computing in the form of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Everything Else as a Service (EEaaS) is real, it’s present and it represents a major cycle of creative destruction within the IT industry…
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