Continuing the current discussion on the cloud, on a day when people all around me are using Amazon’s web services, I wanted to point to a great post by Nick Carr. He points to an interview Robert Scoble did with the CEO of Mogulus (I’m still waiting for my confirmation email folks).
Now Mogulus is a live video streaming site, and has built, as Nick notes, layers of services on top of a shared infrastructure. While they have done it on a single one, I can actually see a future where people can probably leverage multiple best-of-breed services to offer up their products. Maybe Nick was right in a way. Perhaps IT does not matter after all. When I first read Nick’s paper, I did not buy it. There are aspects I still don’t buy, but it is clear that as infrastructure moves to the cloud, for most of us, it’s how we leverage our resources that matters than the resources themselves. For companies like Google though, IT absolutely matters. In fact it matter more than most anything else.
So we should all be looking at all these wonderful options available to us and figuring out how to leverage them. It’s sad that the life science industry has not come close to innovating in this space. Perhaps there will be some cool startup (perhaps there already is) that will prove that you can use distributed resources and maintain data integrity, security and privacy, and build successful businesses. For the enterprise, perhaps it will take an IBM to make the tide turn.
To those big companies, Nick has a great quote
if you want to see the future of computing, look at what the little guys are doing.
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Continuing the current discussion on the cloud, on a day when people all around me are using Amazon’s web services, I wanted to point to a great post by Nick Carr. He points to an interview Robert Scoble did with the CEO of Mogulus (I’m still waiting for my confirmation email folks).
Now Mogulus is a live video streaming site, and has built, as Nick notes, layers of services on top of a shared infrastructure. While they have done it on a single one, I can actually see a future where people can probably leverage multiple best-of-breed services to offer up their products. Maybe Nick was right in a way. Perhaps IT does not matter after all. When I first read Nick’s paper, I did not buy it. There are aspects I still don’t buy, but it is clear that as infrastructure moves to the cloud, for most of us, it’s how we leverage our resources that matters than the resources themselves. For companies like Google though, IT absolutely matters. In fact it matter more than most anything else.
So we should all be looking at all these wonderful options available to us and figuring out how to leverage them. It’s sad that the life science industry has not come close to innovating in this space. Perhaps there will be some cool startup (perhaps there already is) that will prove that you can use distributed resources and maintain data integrity, security and privacy, and build successful businesses. For the enterprise, perhaps it will take an IBM to make the tide turn.
To those big companies, Nick has a great quote
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