HP succumbs to the Cloud
The IT Market is dismantling its legacy approaches to the customer and embracing Cloud Solutions as demand soars.
The Cloud Phenomena, sometimes described as accessing all of your data through a browser is well and truly here. Whilst we have to feel sorry for the 9000 people and families affected, one would have to be a Luddite not to embrace this as an IT user. That’s 9000 rather large salaries , whose cost won’t have to be passed on to you, the customer. For the first time in a long time the IT industry has brought about something with huge socio-economic change. That’s right. The emphasis is not on technology but on socio – economics. All the comments about this news story has been about societal change and not technology. There are worries about centralised, automated centres for everything from computing to the supply of food, in terms of employment. Even some talk about the robots/Computers taking over! This is the same kind of rhetoric that was made 250 years ago when the railway system came about, from the people who were gainfully employed on the canal system It’s change and with change comes worry.
This won’t be an overnight nirvana though from the big boys. They are hardly likely to give away and change their margin model overnight. The likes of Microsoft, Oracle, Intel and HP will take longer to change their margin model then they will to build their data centres. Meanwhile other vendors who have been quietly building super scaled data centres for the last 10 years to support billions of users will gather momentum more quickly. For them the economic model is different. So my advice to you folks out there is that if you don’t have a transition plan in place for the cloud, soon, you will find yourself being outpaced by your competition and your costs squeezed by your customers. This is particularly relevant to SMB, the economic backbone of the nation.
