The Australian – Outsourcing raises questions for companies

If you’ve heard me give a presentation on A Faster Future then you’ve also probably heard me talk about cloud computing and my belief that cloud computing is is the biggest fundamental shift in computing since client/server. While many of the traits of cloud computing are not so different to that of mainframe computing, it puts that same power into the hands of a much wider range of users. Much has been learned about the effectiveness of cloud computing in just a few short years, and you can read about the experiences of some Australian cloud users in this story for the IT section of The Australian newspaper.