2. What is the Cloud?
It’s what hot on the streets right now.
- It’s a bunch of hype. But that’s a good thing.
- The convergence & maturation of existing technologies.
- Making people question the way they’re doing things is good.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more
fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot,
but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it?
It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going
to stop? We'll make cloud computing announcements. I'm
not going to fight this thing. But I don't understand what we
would do differently in the light of cloud.
3. Mobile = Cloud Terminals
It makes Mobile computing super awesome.
- Mobile is the new frontier and [r]evolution of computing; its powered by the cloud.
- Empowering
- Agile
- Accessible
- Reusable
- Disposable
The same concepts apply outside of the mobile context.
4. The IT Game Changer.
Amazon.com: it’s not just for shopping.
“58% of CIOs believe cloud computing will cause a radical shift” -
CIO Magazine
“What a developer gets when they have an account with the Sun
Cloud is their own virtual data center.” Lew Tucker - CTO - Sun
Cloud Group.
“Cloud computing is empowering, as anyone in any part of world
with internet connection and a credit card can run and manage
applications in the state of the art global datacenters; companies
leveraging cloud will be able to innovate cheaper and faster.” -
Jamal Mazhar - Founder and CEO - Kaavo
5. Old vs New
“The exchange server is down.” vs. Gmail/Google Calendar
“You need to install the VPN client.” vs. Dropbox/Google Docs
“My back hurts from carrying all this paper around.” vs. the iPad
“OMG. I lost all my photos.” vs. iCloud/Google Picassa/Flickr
“The new server will take 4 weeks to deploy.” vs. Amazon
6. What’s in it for Us?
An always-up-to-date, interconnected future.
- Cheap, Fast and Good. Pick all 3. Really.
- No more carrying stuff around
- Live, Interactive, Data-driven presentations to replace
static content
- Act quickly; be ad hoc
- New infrastructures for deal-making; developers,
brokers, tenants
