The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals.

Over the weekend, I finished reading the recently released Microsoft paper on the“Economics of the cloud”. As I head to Denver today for participating in thedefrag panelon the impact of cloud computing in the enterprise irregulars track, I just wanted to share some thoughts on the theme which I want to discuss while at the conference both on and off the stage.

The Microsoft paper starts by connecting the dots between technology, economics, and disruption:

Economics are a powerful force in shaping industry transformations. Today‘s discussions on the cloud focus a great deal on technical complexities and adoption hurdles. While we acknowledge that such concerns exist and are important, historically, underlying economics have a much stronger impact on the direction and speed of disruptions, as technological challenges are resolved or overcome through the rapid innovation we‘ve grown accustomed to….

The pressures on IT & the engulfing sense of change in the IT landscape are hard to overlook. The pressures would mean more business begin to seriously look at SaaS, re-negotiating license terms, focusing on rapid adoption of virtualization etc. As part of this and beyond, internal IT would be forced more and more to show more bang for the buck and it is my view that organizations would begin to look more and more to question committed costs and begin to aggressively look at attacking them more systematically – earlier sporadic efforts marked their endeavors.

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