How the Cloud Has Changed Corporate Development
July 14, 2014
Grazed from PCMag. Author: Michael J. Miller.
As we’ve moved into a "cloud-first, mobile-first" world, corporate programming has changed. But I would argue that the change depends on the kind of cloud computing we’re talking about and that the long-term implications could be very significant. If we’re talking about moving from individual data centers to private clouds or even to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), I don’t think the change in corporate programming is necessarily all that significant.
Sure new tools will be used—Open Stack, Amazon services, new mobile-centric frameworks, and languages such as Node.js, Angular, Swift, and Python. But programming is still programming. But when you think about moving from big monolithic corporate applications to using more Software as a Service (SaaS) services working together, that’s a completely different model. And I see that happening in a lot of places…
For small and medium-sized firms that never had much programming to begin with, SaaS services hooked together may get rid of corporate data centers altogether with VARs or a small IT staff taking on the role of "service brokers"—selecting the SaaS services, getting the best deals, and doing some light connections among the services…
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