The less you need outsourcing and focusing on supporting legacy technology telling Wall Street that this is leading to new cloud businesses b* when already 40% of Cap Gemini and 300,000 people are generating revenue in the cloud
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Yeah, but that's not what the 'Cloud' term means.
We know its always been remote, and maybe the networks and compute was that fast to give us the services. 'Cloud' is more to do with the the fact that datacentres can now pack so much identical hardware into racks of commodity hardware, such that the unit of compute isn't a server or a cluster, but a stamp.
The smallest Azure stamp is 800-1000 servers with maybe a battery in every box instead of a UPS. Some might run software routers, software management, network management and the whole stamp can be cloned to another 1000 and if a box fails, you throw it away. If a Motherboard fails, you route around it, because the boxes are cheap at scale so no need for all that expensive fault tolerant hardware. Just re-route and trash it.
Cloud is not just running a iaaS in a virtual VM. The cloud service is the IaaS platform that rolls out our your image whenever you need it, migrates it to another service if there's a problem, turns if off when you don't need it and counts the resources you use. PaaS as a service to spin up Jenkins or a Data Warehouse that would be a massive pain to set up and you don't care when it can just be there when you want.
So the 'Cloud' bit is what's going on at the other end, the hyperscale, automated computer farm run by someone who's better at automation and security than you, and can buy electricity and servers and network connectivity more cheaply than you because they buy so much of it and if you want all the benefits of cloud you have to design things to achieve that'
So its not the connection bit or the remote 'on a server bit', its cheap services that is automated on farms possible by cheap scale commodity hardware that we didn't have before.
I guess its a bit like the other saying: 'How can it be serverless, when there's obviously a server to run it'
I don't know about the future of outsourcing, as I guess workers will feel even their own jobs will become commoditized.
I have said for ages that the cloud is really an enormously long RJ45 cable from your system to somebody else's system in Bangkok. Second, the Great and Wise Steve Wozniak said that there is no security in the cloud. True indeed.
Cloud and outsourcing goes hand in hand. Companies want to concentrate on what they know best, which is the products or services they provide and not on IT. So with Cloud , or on prem computing outsourcing will still be around.
There really is nothing called running in a cloud anyway, its all hosted at some site's Data Center's anyway.
We have been in the "cloud" since the TCP/IP was invented the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.