Five ways cloud computing is like Las Vegas

Grazed from ThoughtsOnCloud. Author: Gary Zeien.

How can using and working with “the cloud” be like Las Vegas? You’re probably thinking I’ve lost my mind, but bear with me! At a recent conference, while I was looking out of my hotel room window, I began to see some similarities between Vegas and what is happening in business and IT as we all move to the cloud.

1. Things seem to appear out of the desert.

If you have been to Las Vegas over the last decade or so, you have seen large transformations in how the city runs. Now, I’ve had the “opportunity” to be in Vegas many times over the last few years, and there is always something new. For most people that “consume the services” of Vegas, these things just seem to appear…

This is also how those of us working with cloud providers feel. Gone are the days where extensive roadmaps are published for consumers. Instead, work usually happens behind the scenes to bring out the new and exciting capabilities that are offered by infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers. Then, almost magically, these services just appear. Whether it’s a new infrastructure service (think load balancing as a service) or a platform service (such as a new supported runtime), like those of us who have visited Vegas know, it just seems to appear out of the desert…

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