I copy here my comment on last post on cloud “What’ coming out of the wall?“
We have some effect of IT-as-electricity from a consumer perspective, I’ve got my yahoo account since 1999 and a lot of services are now available, over Internet, the firs big cloud.
My boss explained that idea on IT about four years ago, we were talking about the concept “on-demand” proposed by IBM. He ask me and I told him “well, there a lot of technical difficulties, but will be a day whe you’ll get something similar, and the way we think about IT will radically change”.
Now the concept of IT-as-electricity is more near to be real, I think only for processing and storage capacity and for some kinds of no-core application, even if there are a lot of problem and questions about security, responsability of the provider, legal questions about storing data ” I don’t know where”, which kind of law apply, and so on.
In my opinion the big stuff (or question) is how will change the way IT can be a competitive advantage, as you stated in some of your post.
I add some more words to my comment. First of all another one example of IT-a-electricity as a consumer, this is trivial, but is this blog. Yes, WordPress give me the ability to have a blog, free of charge, and I don’t need storage, neither servers or application, only Internet connectivity: this may be classified SaaS? For me yes.
Then I recall the comment of Alex on the same post, with wich I agree, he thinks the IT-as-electricity image is useful except applications. That means processing power, storage and development environments are quickly moving towards being a commodity but you may build you competitive advantage on applications, developed to improve you processes.
What’s your opinion? Leave a comment, please.
We have some effect of IT-as-electricity from a consumer perspective, I’ve got my yahoo account since 1999 and a lot of services are now available, over Internet, the firs big cloud.
My boss explained that idea on IT about four years ago, we were talking about the concept “on-demand” proposed by IBM. He ask me and I told him “well, there a lot of technical difficulties, but will be a day whe you’ll get something similar, and the way we think about IT will radically change”.
Now the concept of IT-as-electricity is more near to be real, I think only for processing and storage capacity and for some kinds of no-core application, even if there are a lot of problem and questions about security, responsability of the provider, legal questions about storing data ” I don’t know where”, which kind of law apply, and so on.
In my opinion the big stuff (or question) is how will change the way IT can be a competitive advantage, as you stated in some of your post.
