Get Your Head Into The Cloud!

The coolest part of evolving technology is that while the development of applications and new devices have become more complex, IT professionals have made the task of using these technologies more simple.

In the cloud where all applications will eventually live, the impact and reality of this has never been more profound.

If you are in the IT world you already know this, If you don't already know this than you better start learning it Sparky!

In about 3-5 years from now, every complex application that we have will be available in the cloud.

All of us will be connected and will collaborate via an Ipad/touch type device about the size of a comic book.

You may ask:
"Ck Nostro-dumb-ass' On what do you base this future interconnected Utopia?"

Look around you, it's already happening and while the current economy may be hampering some company's from moving forward, technology is alive and thriving thank you very much.

We in IT, work in an industry that loves change and thrives on challenge.
Part of achieving adoption is by simplifying and enriching user experience.

Soon, anyone who can read and type(Unlike me!) will be able to collaborate via the cloud and manage sophisticated and complex applications with the expertise of a pro.

This will be achieved as all of our data goes from living in our hard drives to living online in servers and data centers that we will access remotely.

A couple of years ago I was in Boston at a show, and watched a harried SharePoint developer drop his laptop top that he had been in the process of coding on and then watched a Cab drive right over it.

Ouch!

Thousands of dollars for the dev. box destroyed and hundreds of hours of content lost.

Someone had much explaining to do to his team, probably some heavy drinking ensued as well.

In the cloud, the remedy will be as simple as setting up the new device and connecting to your data center where all the work was being stored as it was being created.

In the late 20th century IT pros helped usher in a new age of business productivity and in the next part of the 21st century we are going to simplify that technology and free all from the costly tether of complex infrastructure and the headaches of maintaining it.

Life in the cloud will also have perils, but the difference will be that while our developer with the broken laptop, faced dozens, perhaps hundreds of hours trying to get his data back, in the cloud it will be as simple as configuring a new device and getting back to work.

This is a great time for anyone using technology and it's only going to keep getting better.

"May You live In Interesting Times" Says an ancient proverb.
Guess what?
You do!