The cloud changes everything. That's the consensus view.
Whether it's remote infrastructure management, software as a
service, or utility computing or all of these strategies combined
in some way, the cloud is changing the IT services market.
But forget the hype you read in a lot of the business and tech
press. Most of us are already using cloud-based services with
photo-sharing, video-sharing, document-sharing services, or even
tools like
Google Apps and Gmail. Facebook and LinkedIn are both tools
that exist in the cloud and most executives probably use them each
and every day.
The question is really how do we move from acceptance of
consumer tools to a place where these applications can be used in a
bulletproof and robust corporate environment?
