I was a little late to the blogging game (at least in comparison to the David Armano's of the world), but I have been doing it for quite some time.
I feel that things are coming full circle today. One of my first posts in 2006 was called, "The Magical Disappearing Desktop" (this was pre A Media Circ.us). I was at Supernova in San Francisco when it became quite apparent that the notion of local computing was becoming obsolete.
At the time I could not have predicted that the notion of cloud computing would become so popular so quickly, and that it would make the headlines of such major publications as Businessweek within two years, but I knew it would be a big deal. (for things I am tagging on this subject, check back at this link periodically http://del.icio.us/platter/%22cloud%2Bcomputing%22).
Last night I had dinner with Jeremy Beyda, Real Estate Mogul (and soon to be interactive marketing superstar) and the product SugarSync came up. We began talking about the future of cloud computing and the convergence of information and the divergence of hardware.
Here are some slides I posted this past summer:
Today I came across a video from CloudTrade demonstrating their new product. It set me back on the path of interest that began a few years ago. With products like Google Docs becoming more popular, the realization of cloud computing for the masses is imminent.
The question is, how much of this cloud will be governed by Google?
How many of these new start-ups already have their exit strategy in mind (sell to Google)?
It is very exciting for me to watch the progression into a clouded world. I, for one have had to many local issues, and lost too much data as a result of local computing to want our current method of computation to continue as is.
Bring on the cloud!
Tags: cloud computing, jeremy beyda, google docs, google, sugarsync, cloudtrade