Situation Normal, Everything Must Change
summary
Argues cloud is the commoditization of IT as activities move along a life‑cycle from innovation to utility, demonstrated with a ubiquity‑vs‑certainty graph and history from Z3 to Amazon and Salesforce; cites 279 slides as a running gag and reports CIOs saying they spend 600 million customizing non‑strategic IT. Uses concepts: componentization, Red Queen, creative destruction, contrasts Six Sigma vs Agile, and shows Google Maps and OpenStack/Rackspace as working examples of innovate leverage commoditize.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Cloud?
- 1:31Cloud Computing is an evolving paradigm
- 2:13"The challenge of the computer utility" Douglas Parkhill 1966
- 2:46+44 years
- 8:31Risks?
- 8:59Benefits?
- 10:08Reduce Spending?
- 11:09Creative Destruction
- 11:35Theory of Hierarchy Componentisation
- 16:44Survival today requires coherence, coordination and stability'. Survival tomorrow requires the replacement of these erstwhile virtues.
- 17:54Network Effects, Open Source, Participation
- 18:29No Magic Bullet
- 19:102. Misunderstanding Cloud 3. Efficiency vs Innovation
- 22:52Freedom is Slavery George Orwell, 1984
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