[MLUG] Cloud Computing

[Jared Brick]

I think you are really missing the point, and are making some assumptions of
what is going on today, forget about ten years from now.

My point is supply will heavily outweigh demand. Are you going to move your
banking system to amazon, no of course not. But:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/government/index.html
http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/default.aspx
There are many government bodies that already do.

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html
http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-email-accounts.aspx
http://aws.amazon.com/education/customer-experiences/
Universities? Endless.

http://nebula.nasa.gov/
Well I guess NASA doesn't need a provider as they made their own cloud
platform. But they have a history of working with Google (Ames is 5 minutes
from the Google campus in Mountain View)

http://www.salesforce.com/showcase/#cloud=all&view=grid&sort=companysize&filter=enterprise
There's a lot of recognizable names there. Amazon doesn't make their
customer list readily available.

Again these are the well known services. In a given vertical I've seen
countless apps (as in telecom billing platforms, etc) These are being used
now. Forget ten years from now.

I really think you would be surprised at how much important data gets
outsourced in almost any company. Quarterly books? Too complicated, give
experts the data, let them do it.

This doesn't have to be 100% of a company's infrastructure, but my point is
that it's growing and in 10-15 years it will be a much larger percent.

Just because something seems like a dumb idea to you doesn't mean that
companies won't do it. I bet a large percent of this list thinks running an
enterprise on Windows is dumb, but that really has no bearing on reality.

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> For some odd reason, I can't picture; governments, universities, hospitals,
> NASA, research labs, Bombardier, banks, Boing, etc, going to the airy
> 'cloudland'...
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