The architecture and design for enterprise applications always lags behind the available technology. Most vendors are not willing to put in the development funds to fully take advantage of newer technology until they think it is going to start costing them significant sales or maintenance fees.

As some early adopting enterprises start looking for payback on their “cloud experiments”, this will create some opportunities for newer companies or those willing to fund new development for the cloud to compete against longer established software companies.

The architecture and design for enterprise applications always lags behind the available technology. Most vendors are not willing to put in the development funds to fully take advantage of newer technology until they think it is going to start costing them significant sales or maintenance fees.

As some early adopting enterprises start looking for payback on their “cloud experiments”, this will create some opportunities for newer companies or those willing to fund new development for the cloud to compete against longer established software companies.

Agreed on the integration point; in addition, performance testing too – these are the two key pre-requisites for cloud adoption. My view has been that for smaller firms who are either startups or have leased infrastructure, it makes sense to start “cloud-first”, but for the vast majority of enterprises (say with revenues over $1B) a hybrid option is more practical. Exisiting investments in their own datacenters will be augmented with cloud, with means that the business process “seamless-ness” becomes a priority. That leads to integration and performance testing to ensure an acceptable quaility of service.

The concept of human integration architecture will continue to exist on the B2C front unfortunately! Mechanical turk anyone ;-)?

Agreed on the integration point; in addition, performance testing too – these are the two key pre-requisites for cloud adoption. My view has been that for smaller firms who are either startups or have leased infrastructure, it makes sense to start “cloud-first”, but for the vast majority of enterprises (say with revenues over $1B) a hybrid option is more practical. Exisiting investments in their own datacenters will be augmented with cloud, with means that the business process “seamless-ness” becomes a priority. That leads to integration and performance testing to ensure an acceptable quaility of service.

The concept of human integration architecture will continue to exist on the B2C front unfortunately! Mechanical turk anyone ;-)?