Early indications are that starting up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) didn't actually end all life as we know it...at least not in the 4 dimensions I am familiar with (see String Theory Simplified )
But my new bud Kirill Sheynkman, head of Cloud start-up Elastra, said (via itWorldCanada) that this sounds a lot like the early adopters of grid computing , the Web. 2.0 start-ups who want to get up and running quickly and without a lot of capital expense, independent software vendors that want to offer their applications in a software-as-a-service model, and enterprises who have selected specific applications for the cloud, such as salesforce automation or human resources.
Kirill goes on to say that “Equipment inside the corporate data centre isn't going away anytime soon,” added Sheynkman. Companies remain reluctant, for a variety of reasons, to trust the cloud for their mission-critical applications. This includes issues around licencing, compliance, interoperability, data privacy and security.
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