The Future Is Closer Than You Think

This is an excellent post from Jason Hiner over at ZDNet about why the world will change very quickly to a cloud computing infrastructure:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19733&tag=nl.e539

What all of these vendors will argue is that they can save organizations from overprovisioning and overspending on server capacity while also adding 24/7/365 monitoring, scalable load management, and a high level of IT service management (ITSM). Of course, the trade-off is that IT departments give up some control, and usually some staff positions as well.

Some may read this as a threat to their jobs. I argue that the more successful tech person will read this as a strategic opportunity.