Comments on: The Cloud Will Save The World http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/2009/07/01/the-cloud-will-save-the-world/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:23:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Eric Knipp http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/2009/07/01/the-cloud-will-save-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Eric Knipp Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:53:03 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/?p=30#comment-39 @Sam - You make a great point. I prefer to think that "creative destruction" a la Schumpeter is a desirable result of innovations in the Cloud, but the new paradigms enabled by the Cloud will result in mistakes along the way, leading to bona fide destruction in the manner of the LHC! It's a new surface for attackers as well as a new milieu for developers and providers, who certainly haven't figured out all the answers yet. Having said that, I think we agree in principle that the Cloud represents a leap in the quality of tools and platforms for building Web applications, and while there will be bumps in the road, progress won't wait for us to get comfortable. @Madison - I still believe there is no silver bullet. The story hasn't changed. The tools have gotten a lot better in the Cloud, and the current generation of offerings just scratches the surface of what is possible. If providers can deliver on the promise of the cloud - simplicity and lower cost for consumers (in this case, enterprises using APaaS instead of what they used before, for example, on-prem Java EE), resources will be freed to improve the economy in other areas. @Sam – You make a great point. I prefer to think that “creative destruction” a la Schumpeter is a desirable result of innovations in the Cloud, but the new paradigms enabled by the Cloud will result in mistakes along the way, leading to bona fide destruction in the manner of the LHC! It’s a new surface for attackers as well as a new milieu for developers and providers, who certainly haven’t figured out all the answers yet. Having said that, I think we agree in principle that the Cloud represents a leap in the quality of tools and platforms for building Web applications, and while there will be bumps in the road, progress won’t wait for us to get comfortable.

@Madison – I still believe there is no silver bullet. The story hasn’t changed. The tools have gotten a lot better in the Cloud, and the current generation of offerings just scratches the surface of what is possible. If providers can deliver on the promise of the cloud – simplicity and lower cost for consumers (in this case, enterprises using APaaS instead of what they used before, for example, on-prem Java EE), resources will be freed to improve the economy in other areas.

]]> By: madison http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/2009/07/01/the-cloud-will-save-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-38 madison Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:33:13 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/?p=30#comment-38 Your story before joining Gartner and after is quite interesting. Your story before joining Gartner and after is quite interesting.

]]> By: Sam Johnston http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/2009/07/01/the-cloud-will-save-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Sam Johnston Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:34:57 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/?p=30#comment-37 Cloud computing is set to change the world at least as much as the Internet on which it is based did a few decades ago. Things we never would have imagined possible already are, and we're just getting started. That said, proponents of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle" rel="nofollow">precautionary principle</a> will be fast to ask whether "disruptive innovation" is in fact "destructive innovation" and whether "accelerated disruption" is in fact "accelerated destruction". With <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change" rel="nofollow">accelerating change</a> comes a raft of new risks - I for one would rather live in blissful ignorance than be interrupted by the discovery that the Large Hadron Collider was in fact <a>capable of creating creating a black hole</a>. Sam Cloud computing is set to change the world at least as much as the Internet on which it is based did a few decades ago. Things we never would have imagined possible already are, and we’re just getting started.

That said, proponents of the precautionary principle will be fast to ask whether “disruptive innovation” is in fact “destructive innovation” and whether “accelerated disruption” is in fact “accelerated destruction”.

With accelerating change comes a raft of new risks – I for one would rather live in blissful ignorance than be interrupted by the discovery that the Large Hadron Collider was in fact capable of creating creating a black hole.

Sam

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