the cloud and the new kingmakers
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Presentation given at the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando June 2014.TRANSCRIPT
10.20.2005
The Cloud and the New Kingmakers
June 2014
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air.
- J.R.R. Tolkein Flickr: The GameWay
The Cloud
Flickr: Tom Raftery
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“EC2 means anyone with a $10 bill can rent a 10-machine cluster with 1TB of distributed storage for 8 hours.”
- Flip Kromer
Cause
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Effect
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The Rewards of Developer Focus
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And It’s Not Just The Cloud
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Technology adoption today is bottom up
CIO
DEVELOPERS
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What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used
CIO
DEVELOPERS
What Developers Want to Use
What is Actually Being Used
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“How did this happen?”
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For the first time in history
developers don’t need permission
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And they are increasingly empowered
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Education and Training
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Collaboration Mechanisms
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Marketplaces for Goods & Services
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It’s the end of procurement as we’ve
known it
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Still skeptical?
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Consider language adoption
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Consider the state of standards
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Consider software adoption
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“Ok, fine. Everything has changed. But
what do I do?”
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/yersinia/4440378237/
Treat developers like a baby treats bacteria
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“As any new parent knows, infants are notoriously susceptible to bacterial infections. A study now suggests that the body engineers this vulnerability deliberately, allowing beneficial microbes to colonize the baby’s gut, skin, mouth and lungs.”
Nature, 11.6.13
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How?
Step 1: Learn from King Cnut
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Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet "continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person.”
Source: Wikipedia
Step 2: Ease Off The Brake
Flickr: Nicholas Serre
Step 3: Learn Jujitsu
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"Jutsu" can be translated to mean "art" or "technique" and represents manipulating the opponent's force against himself rather than confronting it with one's own force.
Source: Wikipedia
