A Wonderful 2008-Q4 and Promising 2009

Cloud technologies could be the right one, the  web development people have been waiting for a long. In 2008, it has lived upto the expectations of SMBs. Almost all major vendors have disclosed an impressive Q4-2008 with significant revenues and growth in this line of technology. This will set the booster for the 2009. Larger scale adoption of this technology by a few significantly large corporates will ally the fears related to cloud data security and privacy and bring more acceptance to the public at large. 

IBM has clearly forked the scope of technology towards private clouds and public clouds. Although psychologically soothing, implementing a captive cloud for an enterprise and re-acrhitecting the applications to run on the cloud will prohibitively expensive. Hence the future of cloud technologies really is with the enterprises adopting secure public cloud services incrementally. Smaller businesses look like the blessed ones on the consumer side while the infrastructure software and hardware vendors could be on an accelerated growth path mostly gaining from the increased demand for more improvised data centres. The programmer communities should undergo intense paradigm shift towards the cloud acrchitecture and re-skill themselves with new tool sets. Google's approach towards the cloud technologies deserves more discussion space among technolologists.