Did you see Hot Tub Time Machine?

The movie is about going back in time. How ideal for someone who claims to be a futurist! Armed with knowing the future one of the stars creates Lougle instead of Google. It is very funny, especially because it is based on the 80s which was a time I remember well.

Without a hot tub we are left to forecast the future without being able to travel back in time. We may depend on tools or psychics or trend reports. We may dream about it.

Looking back a few years ago, I knew that cloud computing was going to be part of the IT future. How did I know that? It was beneficial not only to the user by being in a software as a service format where the user would sign up and pay for services they used in a pay-per-use format (Software-as-a-Service), providing the user with the tools they needed without upfront costs of buying a computer and appropriate software licenses they normally would have needed to buy, but also it was beneficial to the developer saving time a developer would normally need to take to set up their test development environment (Platform-as-a-Service). Cloud computing was also beneficial for organizations who could not afford to provide upfront capital expenses previously needed in order to have access to a network infrastructure. Cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service would would relieve the user from the hardware expense and cost of technical expertise normally needed to build a scaleable infrastructure.

Did I know the government would make it a major initiative? No, but it has. In this blog I am an explorer in the new world of cloud computing. Factual this blog will NOT always be, but it will be a journey of discovery.