So I have been busy and pondering over this questions on Why Innovate?
We have many large corporations that have Innovation somewhere in their values or catchy Slogan. However, true Innovation comes from -- I think, necessity , one has to foster the culture of innovation by allowing failures, and that marks the cornerstone of an 'experienced' and progressive set of values.
I want to explore this with a n example... Amazon once a largest bookseller, came up with with EC2 or Amazon cloud, while technologies powerhouses are still struggling to define themselves in the 'cloud play'.. why is that a book company was able to envision a computing platform while selling books and organizations whose core business was computing could never lead with it? -- Vision.
I think It all boils down to vision and execution... and yes I think failures goes along the way... but what a vision brings is amazing things like iPOD, iPAD and Amazon which is hosting many things from applications to platform for netflix to stream movies.
I still think that with middleware in cloud, the industry is focused on provisioning and automation, and missing the bigger picture.. where there is no focus on utility model, or application design that includes amazing capabilities to linearly scale...speedier access by employing caching technologies, smarter awareness of me the customer --- I do not think we need a lot of money or investment into these insights, we just need the will and reason to innovate!!
Thoughts?
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Nitin
Nitin, good start!
ReplyDeleteI think "Cloud Computing" is still evolving, Azure and other PaaS vendors are trying to focus on Utility and application design, little convoluted offering right now from MS for Azure platform but someone will bring a smarter solution soon.
It has not become a necessity yet but it is getting there. We are reviewing a cloud computing option for our simulation/modeling requirements where we need to finish 10,000 runs and each takes 1 hr. There are some vendors who are offering VMs with windows OS and SQL server and the cost is amazingly cheap. I can have 100 machines with 100 database instances to do this under $500. As Systems Director having my own data center and servers, I am excited and waiting for more to come.