Blue sky on cloud computing

Pundit’s gambit on cloud computing:

But, in my opinion, two key factors take cloud computing into a qualitatively different dimension. One is massive scalability. I believe that the kinds of advances that we have become used to in the world of high-end supercomputing are now coming to the more general purpose computing world. I expect that a number of the new applications that data centers will be asked to support will grow by two to three orders of magnitude over the next decade. A 10X – 100X growth over 10 years means roughly that the applications are growing at between 25% and 60% CGR.

Then there is the much higher quality of experience that cloud applications provide to their users. Cloud applications are very different from classic IT applications, whose intrinsic complexities are barely hidden from their users. You truly want users of cloud applications to just be able to access them in the most natural and simplest way possible. Cloud applications should be able to provide a really high quality of experience to massive numbers of users without missing a beat. They should significantly improve the way people deal with the many tasks and devices that surround them in their everyday life – at work, at home, on-the-go, and wherever they happen to be.