Enterprise technologists are getting closer to understanding and accepting the notions behind cloud computing. In this blog post, the folks at the FAST Forward blog point to an article about collective intelligence, cloud computing, and networked knowledge work.
What’s happened over the past few years is that people writing web applications have found ways to fully take advantage of the Internet for collaborative work. They’ve learned methods for building applications that harness the efforts of many people to build an even stronger value on top.
For instance, instead of storing your bookmarks to websites on your own browser, by adding them on a site like del.icio.us, not only can you see the bookmarks you’ve stored, but you can browse and search and find what other people have discovered elsewhere. The combined bookmarking builds another whole level of discovery on top of standalone efforts, meaning that more hands lighten the load.
Enterprises have been slow to accept and adopt this. Partly, it’s security. Another part is finding ways to turn consumer product models into business product models. But it’s coming. Slowly. Software as a service and distributed computing models are just the start. Virtualization is showing how we can disaggregate the hardware layer from computing.
Check out the article for more thoughts on this: Full article here.
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