Cloud Computing at a quarter century
It’s hard to believe that cloud computing is turning 25 this year likely signing up for its first 401K and starting to check its credit score. It was in 1997 that Emory University Professor Ramnath Chellapa defined cloud computing as a “computing paradigm, where the boundaries of computing will be determined by economic rationale, rather than technical limits alone.” Soon after Amazon introduced retail-based services, and in 2006 both Amazon and Google made what would be historic moves with the introduction of AWS and Google Docs services. Netflix followed the next year followed by NASA’s OpenNebula in 2008 (remember that?), and enterprises woke up to the fact that their infrastructure was becoming antiquated. With the economic uncertainty facing many organizations in the financial crisis of 2009, new technology alternatives that previously might have seemed risky were now seen as opportunities to build new agility into IT organizations. Private clouds were born, and the Arthurian quest for the perfect hybrid cloud environment was kicked off.
Today we all know the value of cloud. Even people who don’t obsess about tech know the value of cloud services to our lives and how they have fundamentally transformed societal function. We also are all acutely aware of how the past two years of pandemic would have been exponentially worse if not for this technology. As we enter into the post-pandemic world, I wanted to delve deep into where the cloud stands today. Over the following weeks I’ll be sharing opinions on where we are at across infrastructure, software stacks, security, and services from some of the industry’s brightest minds, and we’ll uncover a view on what promising innovations will drive cloud capability forward into the next quarter century of advancement.
I’m kicking off the series with a conversation with Ampere chief product officer Jeff Wittich on the foundational future of cloud processing requirements and why Ampere has built its products from the ground up for cloud workloads. In its fifth year of existence, Ampere has gone from silicon dream to deployment reality at some of the largest cloud service providers on the planet and proven that new architectures (even those not designed in house) can thrive in cloud environments. Jeff also shares his view that we’ve reached another macro environment where economic uncertainty opens the door to new avenues for technology innovation with Ampere products delivering new opportunity for performance and cost efficiency. I invite you all to check out the interview, subscribe to get the entire series, and reach out to me and my guests to continue the dialogue. Thanks for engaging - Allyson
It’s hard to believe that cloud computing is turning 25 this year likely signing up for its first 401K and starting to check its credit score. It was in 1997 that Emory University Professor Ramnath Chellapa defined cloud computing as a “computing paradigm, where the boundaries of computing will be determined by economic rationale, rather than technical limits alone.” Soon after Amazon introduced retail-based services, and in 2006 both Amazon and Google made what would be historic moves with the introduction of AWS and Google Docs services. Netflix followed the next year followed by NASA’s OpenNebula in 2008 (remember that?), and enterprises woke up to the fact that their infrastructure was becoming antiquated. With the economic uncertainty facing many organizations in the financial crisis of 2009, new technology alternatives that previously might have seemed risky were now seen as opportunities to build new agility into IT organizations. Private clouds were born, and the Arthurian quest for the perfect hybrid cloud environment was kicked off.
Today we all know the value of cloud. Even people who don’t obsess about tech know the value of cloud services to our lives and how they have fundamentally transformed societal function. We also are all acutely aware of how the past two years of pandemic would have been exponentially worse if not for this technology. As we enter into the post-pandemic world, I wanted to delve deep into where the cloud stands today. Over the following weeks I’ll be sharing opinions on where we are at across infrastructure, software stacks, security, and services from some of the industry’s brightest minds, and we’ll uncover a view on what promising innovations will drive cloud capability forward into the next quarter century of advancement.
I’m kicking off the series with a conversation with Ampere chief product officer Jeff Wittich on the foundational future of cloud processing requirements and why Ampere has built its products from the ground up for cloud workloads. In its fifth year of existence, Ampere has gone from silicon dream to deployment reality at some of the largest cloud service providers on the planet and proven that new architectures (even those not designed in house) can thrive in cloud environments. Jeff also shares his view that we’ve reached another macro environment where economic uncertainty opens the door to new avenues for technology innovation with Ampere products delivering new opportunity for performance and cost efficiency. I invite you all to check out the interview, subscribe to get the entire series, and reach out to me and my guests to continue the dialogue. Thanks for engaging - Allyson
