A couple of weeks ago while we were in Vegas covering Layered Tech's annual event LT PACT 2008, we took the opportunity to sit down with James Staten, principal analyst, IT infrastructure and Operations at Forrester Research, who delivered the opening keynote titled "Cloud/Grid Computing: A Classic Disruptive Technology."
It's no secret that cloud computing is an incredibly hot topic right now and Staten's presentation essentially outlined the idea that cloud computing is here NOW and is garnering a resounding amount of appreciation by SMBs and developers but is still being looked at apprehensively by Enterprise IT and won't be embraced by them for at least another five years.
Although Staten presented an in-depth and heavily researched presentation with lots of evidence to back up his points, some of the people I chatted to at the event felt that perhaps Staten was off in his estimation of when the cloud would be ready for the enterprise market. Some argue that it's ready now, with solutions like IBM's "Blue Cloud" initiative serving as the perfect example of a company offering a cloud computing environment catered to larger enterprises. I would be curious to talk to IBM to ask them more about this.
Either way, Staten was fascinating to speak to and he has some incredibly informative things to share. Enjoy!
We recently published a blog post on this subject with the purpose of simplifying the discussion via images and cutting through the confusion.
You can read it here: “ASPs are dead, long live the Cloud” https://community.paglo.com/blog_topic/index/110-t...
Brian de Haaff, Paglo