Steve Duplessie from Enterprise Strategy Group published a report recently giving his impressions of the role cloud computing will have on the future. I don't want to spoil it for you by saying too much about his thinking, but I thought I'd share his persepctives on the increasing importance of business agility:
As Web 2.0 migrates from a world of questionable business value to mainstream business deliverables, IT departments are increasingly finding themselves without a plan. How does an IT operation go from taking three months to plan and provision infrastructure to support a business application to creating and scaling one in semi real-time? Without any realistic method to determine what the extent of interactions will ultimately be or how fast growth will occur, it is very difficult to make any plans.
Definitely a good piece that helps clarify "cloud".
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