The Uneven Future: 2 Telling Views of Cloud Adoption
July 21, 2014
Grazed from CIO. Author: Bernard Golden.
My last couple of columns have addressed cloud adoption patterns by IT organizations. Has Cloud Computing Been A Failed Revolution discussed the seeming ennui regarding cloud computing on the part of IT groups – that they seem less interested in the field, despite the belief on the part of vendors that the cloud represents tomorrow’s technology infrastructure. Most recently, The Real Cloud Computing Revolution described three real-world examples of companies using cloud computing to solve problems they couldn’t have addressed in the infrastructure models of traditional IT.
This week, two sets of information brought to mind William Gibson’s well-known aphorism "The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed." Despite evidence such as that outlined in my most recent blog post, each describes a future of IT as little changed from a decade ago – mostly on-premises, mostly static with little possible resource elasticity and mostly unable to support the kind of innovation described in that post…
In other words, the future of IT is already here, but it’s being carried on in areas far removed from the traditional IT settings. The key question: Will those traditional settings ever catch up, or will they be abandoned to become a kind of technology rustbelt reminiscent of the post-industrial outcomes seen in today’s Detroit?…
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