Lightning talk at CloudCamp London #5

1. Why the cloud is the next Excel Rhys Jones CloudCamp London #5

2. supply Demand for IT change exceeds your organisation’s ability to

3. Budgets are getting smaller

7. How many user developed Excel or Access based applications are there in your organisation?

8. It’s only going to get worse (or better)

10. No, it’s going to get much worse (or much better)

12. How are you going to control them?

15. Infrastructure Platforms Software MS Office Google Apps Salesforce.com Technology Focus User Focus Sharepoint SimpleDB, S3 EC2, Cloudfront, Elastic IP Heroku, Engine Yard RAC Google App Engine RPX Now

17. How hard can it be? A Reference for the Rest of Us! Building global, distributed, fault-tolerant, secure, high performance applications

25. Are we there yet?

28. What does this mean for you?

29. How will your company manage the applications that are critical to your business when many are built outside of IT?

30. How will you retain your smartest people and their innovations ?

31. Cloud vendors, what are you doing to make your product attractive to the other 90% of the market ?

32. When it becomes easy enough will you be launching your own company?

33. Are the platform companies becoming the biggest early stage VCs?