Rule 1 for migration to Cloud Computing – Get the definition right.
IT industry, like fashion industry, has an absolute Darwinian need for inventing (and then betting farm on) new trends. Cloud computing, with all it’s advantages and disadvantages, is on it’s way to become a must-play IT trend.
George Zachary of Charles River Venture, calls this a new dotcom. He should know, he must be getting business plans by the dozens. I won’t be surprised if half of those PowerPoint pitches are full of replace-all of ‘Web2.0/SaaS’ with ‘Cloud …