We have all heard about Amazon Web Services - EC2, S3, RDS etc and how it is fueling innovation all over the software industry. Developers are jumping onto the cloud bandwagon and building applications that were previously unthinkable - DropBox etc. Even NetFlix is known to be using Amazon's web services.
This is the first wave of cloud innovation. Building service and applications that are more infrastructure-like in the value they provide. The next wave of cloud innovation will be when semantically-cognizant applications can be made available in the cloud. Actually, cloud as an infrastructure option should be removed from our vocabulary. As far as a CIO is concerned, the infrastructure exists and has an SLA associated with it. Who cares if its in the cloud or if its in my data center?
So, are there any cloud-based applications out there that are at a different plane than the DropBoxes?
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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