IT departments must transform in the face of the cloud revolution
October 19, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.
During the week of October 5th I had an opportunity to attend the AWS re:Invent 2015 conference in Las Vegas, of all places. As someone who has built an entire career on putting together custom application server software, I should be the last one to get excited about server-less applications. Just like Salesforce’s “no software,” Amazon’s “server-less software” mantra is about a world where application development is not limited by IT, software to install and servers to manage.
Traditionally, in an on-premise environment, putting together an enterprise application involved building out three pieces: the data store, the server and the client. Between the hardware, the software and the infrastructure associated with the aforementioned on-premise application, there were hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of up-front capital expense…
The project team was forced to justify their project and their work to the C-suite. CIOs and CFOs were forced to place that initial bet without knowing whether the application will succeed or not…
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