Will IT Reboot Itself in the Cloud?

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Arthor Cole.

It’s almost impossible these days to view any development in the IT industry outside the lens of cloud computing. Just about every facet of data technology is geared toward either getting on the cloud or enhancing the experience for those already there. For the vendor community in particular, the cloud has become an obsession—the prevailing wisdom being that those who are not building cloud-ready solutions right now are doomed to the worst fate in technologydom: obsolescence.

The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy summed it up pretty well this week, pointing to Dell’s privatization strategy and HP’s perpetual reorganization in light of the shift from personal computers to mobile devices, which themselves are subsumed into the larger cloud ecosystem…

But even as the old guard of IT infrastructure struggles to remain current, relative newcomers like Google and Salesforce find themselves under constant pressure to keep ahead of the next vanguard—companies like Workday and NetSuite who are entering the game with little or no baggage from the bygone years of traditional enterprise computing. And yet, is it possible that we are jumping the gun just a bit? Perhaps we shouldn’t be so worried that the enterprise isn’t ready for the cloud but the cloud isn’t ready for the enterprise…

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