Cloud ComputingThe Shi(f)t is happening!
What the heck is a Cloud?• Wikipedia says : “Cloud computing is Internet-based ("cloud")
development and use of computer technology ("computing"). The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet (based on how it is depicted in computer network diagrams) and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.[1] It is a style of computing in which IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service”,[2] allowing users to access technology-enabled services from the Internet ("in the cloud")[3] without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them.[4] According to the IEEE Computer Society, "It is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that include desktops, entertainment centers, table computers, notebooks, wall computers, handhelds, etc."[5]!
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• Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software as a service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and other recent, well-known technology trends, in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. For example, Google Apps provides common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers.
Who are the providers?
How does it work?How cloud computing works
According to FT.com
Lets compare some trends
Mere growing interest?
...Or some figures?
• Merrill Lynch said $160 Bn (CC)!
• IDC said $42Bn by 2012 (CC) - After MSFT Azure I saw $60 Bn!
• Gartner said $3.4 Trillion (overal IT)!
• How to relate numbers to real figures in this Real-Time Global Economy?*
Cloud Computing: The Technology Bailout Plan?
• What would John Maynard Keynes say?!
• What would Milton Friedman & Anna Jacobsen Shwartz say?!
• What would Kondratieff say?!
• What would you say?
Why will it last longer?
• World Economy is not about to get healthier soon enough - Deleveraging to hit other core businesses - Carry Trade/Carry Risk!!
• We need to listen to Kondratieff!
• Markets will have to adapt pragmatic & conservative approach
A pattern is emerging...
Source: Butler Group
Tech Delevereging of Toxic Products?
• Oversubscribed shelfware; Cloudware could be consumed “on-demand”!
• Big software houses ramp-up may not help!
• Stallman and Ellison are both right and wrong!
• Virtualization solved your hardware asset oversubscription; CC will address your toxic shelfware oversubscription
Cloud Services the answer?
Courtesy: IDC Xchange Blog
Quick math I saw in the Cloud yesterday...
Trick Question
• Can you tell me how much it cost NYT to convert their 150+ years of scanned archives into PDFs
The 4th North Imperative• When does my data cross borders?!
• What are those borders and what happens to it?!
• Should I even care? -- Younger generation may not have any problems with it unless...!
• Examples of 1-0-1 checkpointing
Protection from ourselves• iRobot: Will you comply?!
• Lesser human intervention the better!
• More control on core businesses!
• More focus on rapidly developing information warfare; no time for managing people/software/licensing/oversubscription
Protection from ourselves
Self-Sourcing Model• Visualization!
• Multi-dimensional data manipulation!
• Predict and play doomsday/happy days game - a la Ben Affleck in Paycheck!
• Demystify all those complex domains!
• Ahhh wait...lets play do a demo on my Cube Manager 1.0
Self Sourcing Ikea Style
RTIMM: Demystified Dimensionality & Interactive Visualization
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Source: Avastu
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2 1/2 Moon Convergence
Lets look at broadcast industry
Business is driving IT (nuts?)
So Cloud Computing is all about...
Embedded Voice Recognition
Real World Cloud
In your brain
Flexible Displays
Self Healing Stuff
High-k Transistors
Clear-pixel Cameras
Pay-Per Glance
Self-Defending Bots
bcoz...you are the Cloud ZeitGeist*
• Collectivity replaces Selectivity*!
• Transparency replaces secrecy!
• Swarm intelligence takes over!
• Open Worknets replace closed networks!
• Please fill in your thoughts here
This time..you’re in charge!
Shift is happeningNo point denying it
My shameless plugs
Thanks for listening!• References: ButlerGroup, Wikipedia,
My “Dog eyes and ears” glued to the Cloud!
• Tarry Singh: [email protected]!
• Websites: http://ideationcloud.com!
• Connect: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tarrysingh!
• Coming: IdeationCloud Pro Cloud Service: Realtime Analysis, Reports etc
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