Structure 08

I am sitting with Dan White waiting for Structure 08 to start. Om Malik of GigaOM will be opening the sold out event.

Om Malik is now on stage.

Cloud computing is a lot of fog, a little cold. A lot of activity going on in cloud computing world. Companies are spending a lot of money on infrastructure. Few top companies spent over $6 billion in infrastructure. There are so many issues with infrastrcture: scaling out, power etc.

There is a video message from Nick Carr.

- Structure is happening at the same time Bill Gates is retiring
- Fundamental unit of computing is shifting from individual computer to datacenter or grid computing.
- A lot of technical challenges such as reliability, energy efficiency are becoming center to competitive advantage.
- Management of infrastructure is becoming more and more important.
- Functioning of data center is becoming very important
- Moving from IT provided locally to grid/over the network
- We don't know what the ultimate structre of the industry will be.
- Structure will be crucial to success.
- Electric current didn't have ethical dimension to utility. It was ethically neutral.
- Computing involves information, personal information which has a very important ethical component.

Om takes the stage again.

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