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The Cloud: making IT a commodity

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One of the majors improvements powered by the Cloud paradigm is making IT a commodity. The IT industry, however, was not able to take advantage of this new reality. In the Cloud world Business, literally, meets Consumers.  IT giants are having great difficulties adapting to this new, empowered and consumer-centric, working model. These giants are used to collect partners, which in turn sell their products to IT managers and CIOs. This traditional business model is having some difficulties imposing itself in the Cloud  and I, sincerely, do not believe this would happen, at least in a short term and without some model redefinition. That being said, it is time for business owners, CEOs, entrepreneurs and department managers (among others) to update themselves, to redefine their business.

How the Cloud is changing businesses

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According to VentureBeat.com: “A slew of new offerings in the cloud are helping even the tiniest of businesses look and act like big companies”. This is, in my opinion, a new reality arising from the Cloud paradigm. New ways of working are allowing small companies to, easily and in a low cost basis, spread their products around the world and act, in the global market, like big companies with a fraction of the costs. However, to obtain these results, managers need to be open mind about new ways of thinking and new ways of doing business: the Cloud way.

Cloud Ecosystem

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To live is to be part of an ecosystem able to enhance our ability to communicate, talk, write and read. We need to be able to move from one place to another, we need accountability, we need predictability, we need insurance, to feel secure, and we need trust links. Our ability to have success, to move forward and to develop projects and relationships is 100% dependent on our ecosystem.

To Cloud or not to Cloud was the question raised at the “CloudViews – Cloud Computing Conference 2009″ and to which the correct answer will always depend on our capability to develop an ecosystem with all their components.

Helping Cloud Computing achieve its main goal – transform IT platforms in elastic, highly available, fault tolerant, secure, and multi-tenant platforms. Allowing IT technicians to be able to shift the focus of their work from the technology complexity to their companies core business, will depends on our capability to build a true Computing ecosystem in the Cloud: encryption mechanisms, predictability and provision platforms, SLAs monitoring and agreements contracts, AAI, elastic networks, interoperability frameworks, schedule mechanisms, etc.

Please stay tunned and please book the 20th and 21st of May in your agenda…