The Economics of the Cloud

Great books and articles are created to last. Recently, I had the opportunity to reread this article created about 4 years ago but sill full of insights.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/cloud/docs/the-economics-of-the-cloud.pdf

I really like the original incipit:

“When cars emerged in the early 20th century, they were initially called horseless carriages. Understandably, people were skeptical at first, and they viewed the invention through the lens of the paradigm that had been dominant for centuries: the horse and carriage.”

This is the key to unfold the power of Cloud, free ourselves from old paradigms and think different.

The economics are always important drives of any innovation and the conclusions of this paper are clearly a powerful motivator behind many IT changes.

Good Reading!