How the Cloud Will Disrupt the IT Status Quo

GigaOM May 15 2009 Cloud Computing

The transition to delivering software, services and compute infrastructure via the web will change the dynamics of the IT industry, shifting power away from the services players such as IBM and HP and toward companies running monolithic data center operations such as Salesforce.com, Amazon or Microsoft, according to three Forrester analysts I spoke with last week. James Staten, John Rymer and Ted Schadler, who all cover what Forrester calls cloud computing and I would call delivering a variety of technology via the web, talked about how learning how to scale and deliver a single type of application or service is the best way to eke out margins in the cloud.

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