I’m fed up of reading about Cloud outages, largely because all applications are created and managed by the most dangerous species on the planet – the human being. Failure is inevitable in regards to everything the human being creates or touches, and for this reason alone I see no news in seeing the word “outage” in IT articles with or without Cloud mentioned.

What gets me the most is that applications, infra-structure and data centers were slowing down and blowing up long before “Clouds” became fashionable. They just didn’t make the news every other week when applications resided in “data-centers”–ah, the good old days. Just ask anyone who works in operations or help desk/app support whether they’ve worked a 38 hour week; I guess the vast majority will either laugh or slap you. If everything worked according to plan, IT would be a really dull place to work, help desk would be replaced with OK desk, and we’d have nothing to talk about in the office or pub.

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Welcome Jeremy, lets start with a quick introduction of who you are and what you do at EMC.
I run marketing at EMC working for Joe Tucci, our CEO.  Been there about 18 months.

And what beer will you be drinking tonight?
That new Bud in bottles that includes Lime – why did no one think of that until now ?  I hate putting that real lime in my beer and squirting it all over my shirt.  American innovation leads the way again.

So this Cloud meets Big Data stuff, what’s all that about?
Cloud has emerged as the biggest disruptive force in IT for at least the last decade.  And maybe ever.  Complexity in IT departments is at a breaking point, so they are re-transforming their infrastructure around virtualized servers, storage, and networking, transforming their applications using frameworks like Spring and Ruby and transforming access using a myriad of consumer devices such as the iPad.   Once this transformation is complete, IT will be able to run the way God intended it to run – as an agile, efficient service.

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