Cloud computing into a new era

According to Beijing news reports and foreign media reports, cloud computing pioneer Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff (Marc Benioff) is currently personally writing a passionate Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2 article, said the iPad The birth will bring an industry innovation and evolution, companies either actively meet the revolution, or face the crisis of bankruptcy.

He said in the article, this week his own complex mood, has been recalled history, because he saw the future. The future is not Mac, not PC, not iPhone, these are not important. Going forward, one door is opening and we'll soon be entering a new era of computing accelerated by Steve Jobs by Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO).

He went on to state: The future of the IT industry will be completely different from the past, it looks like a piece of paper, its name is iPad. In terms of the user interface, it is a touch rather than an input or a click; it is video-based rather than textual and animated in terms of content; it is cloud-centric in computing mode and is predominantly push information; it requires a developer Rewrite everything (to give full play to the advantages of new computers and new clouds). All of this makes our industry interesting again.

He mentioned that in a speech to 60 CIOs last week, he personally conveyed the message that we are moving from cloud computing 1.0 to cloud computing 2.0 and that the iPad is a booster to accelerate this process. However, many have not yet reached the Cloud 1 phase - some even in the mainframe era. They are still using MVS / CICS technology or Lotus Notes software and even though the HTML5 specification has come out, they have not heard of the Cocoa development environment yet. This is unacceptable. The new era is at hand. The iPad tells us where things are possible now, and we have to move quickly. Unfortunately, some CIOs prefer to retire early rather than consider big strides.

The most exciting is that the fundamental changes brought by cloud computing + socialization + iPad will open a whole new era of innovative applications to change the entire industry. Take the health industry as an example. We've been looking forward to having a health application that will revolutionize the way people communicate with their physicians to help make better healthcare decisions. The first generation of EHR / PHR (eHR / HRH) applications failed to meet this goal. Now that the Obamacare reform is finally under way, there is a lack of a key application that will power the new EHR reimbursement program. However, as Apple iPad opens the door to change, these missing applications have room to grow and will drive the industry and experts who have lagged far behind using the previous generation of technology. Now no industry lags behind.

I pointed out that the enterprise software industry should move forward a few steps. In 1999, I was fascinated by the question: "Why is not all enterprise software the same as Amazon?" By 2010, the question became "why do not all corporate applications like Facebook?" This week, When we hold the iPad, we will get the answer to the question. iPad more productive, more concise and easy to use, it brings fun life and work style. iPad highlights the existing world can go further. We need new software and a new user interface.

The future of "cloud" is YouTube, Twitter and Facebook

We have undergone many changes in all walks of life, but the most far-reaching changes are always software-related, not hardware. Now, we witness the simultaneous changes in hardware and software. Important software we use for office, collaboration, communication, entertainment, education, and even health uses rewrites the code to take advantage of the new iPad features. This will bring a new era, an era of iPad + Facebook, not the era of Yahoo + PC. The industry we are in is changing. We need to face these changes positively, otherwise we will miss a great opportunity.