Cloud Computing is revolutionizing IT by enabling:
1) Democratization of enterprise infrastructure for small/medium businesses.
2) Scalability and fast provisioning of resources at web scale.
3) Commoditization of infrastructure, allowing IT to focus on strategic work.
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Revolution not Evolution: How cloud computing differs from traditional IT and why it matters
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Revolution Not Evolution
How Cloud Computing Differs from
Traditional IT and Why it Matters
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2. Executive Summary
Cloud Computing is a revolution that will define IT in
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the second decade of the 21st Century. This new form of
Executive Summary 1
computing is perfectly poised to provide solutions to a host
A New Dawn or Just Another Day –
of business problems within organizations large and small.
Ellison vs. Benioff 2
From Water-wheel to Utility Power –
Cloud Computing will be the catalyst for the long predicted
An analogy for the Cloud 5
notion of “ubiquitous computing” enabling this revolution
Mainframes to Cloud –
through a number of means:
A brief history of technological innovation 7
Virtualization –
• Virtualization – The ability to increase computing
The ability to increase computing efficiency 9
efficiency
Democratization of Computing –
• Democratization of Computing – Bringing
Bringing enterprise scale infrastructure to
enterprise scale infrastructure to small and medium
small and medium businesses 10
businesses
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• Scalability and fast provisioning – Bringing web
Scalability and fast provisioning –
scale IT at a rapid pace
for IT at web scale 13
• Commoditization of infrastructure – Enabling IT to
Commoditization of infrastructure –
focus on the strategic aspects of its role
Enabling IT to focus on the strategic
aspects of its role 15
This paper will detail the revolution that Cloud Computing
Summary 16
is bringing to IT and will contrast the new IT from
About Diversity Analysis 17
traditional approaches.
About Rackspace 18