Rod Boothby. Development: The Vanishing Enterprise.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Abstract. It used to be that you could see the business, touch the bricks, sample the product and the biggest problem with holding a meeting was finding a free boardroom. The first decade of the 21st century has been about enterprises dissipating, virtualizing and breaking into widely spread parts. As the enterprise fragmented geographically (even into the home) the first parts of traditional operations that vanished were the face-to-face meetings and the printed, hand delivered memos. The tools that supported this first step mainly dealt with the small, seemingly unimportant parts of an enterprise’s operations that nobody really noticed going away.

As we move to the next decade, the big things are disappearing. A data-center is not a rounding error in a budget -- it can now be removed from the balance sheet entirely.

Cloud IT infrastructure now can take on many forms - internal clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds. Companies like Joyent are enabling this second was wave of enterprise virtualization and making all three cloud scenarios a reality!

Over the next ?? minutes we will explain what is making this flexibility possible and how you can leverage this evolution to gain agility, flexibility and capability in an open, loving cloud.

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