Friday, January 14, 2011

Is Cloud Computing in Your Future?


What is Cloud Computing you ask? Cloud computing is an increasingly broad topic that encompasses everything from Google Apps to data center services to virtualization to software-, infrastructure- and platform-as-a service. Technology executives are increasingly interested in cloud computing as a way to save money. Nevertheless, cloud adoption remains in the single digits amid security concerns.

I believe that cloud computing is a game changer. Key players include: IBM, HP, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, NetSuite, VMware as well as dozens of others.

This could result in a substantial cost savings to local governments especially in today's down turned economic market. I will be writing more on this as I prepare my final project, with this as my topic of choice for my CIO course. I hope to take all of you, my dedicated readers on for the ride as we learn about the future of cloud computing together. I will explain how we may all be swept up in "cloud computing", perhaps kicking and screaming, but we will be heading in that direction, like it or not.

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