Technological innovation will eventually overturn the traditional

Bernard Golden, chief executive of HyperStratus, a world-renowned cloud computing consultancy, wrote online recently that technological innovations are almost ubiquitous. Everyone is talking about technological innovation, every enterprise is eager for technological innovation, every country is in the pursuit of technological innovation. So how does technology innovation happen? Gordon insists that humans are now in the tide of technological innovation driven by IT. Marc Andreessen, a prominent Silicon Valley-based economist and author of "Why software is eating the world," published in The Wall Street Journal, also believes that the IT industry is now invading many traditional industries and attempting to use software-driven Technical innovation to reform the traditional industries.

Another fact that Anderson did not say in the article is that something that is good for one does not necessarily benefit others. As a result, while many support the disruptive changes brought about by this new model of technological innovation, others are threatened and use their power to resist such innovations.

IT technology innovation is everywhere

Over the past two weeks, Golden has seen the opportunity to attract eye-catching technological innovations and witnessed what has happened to those who found the daunting technological innovations. Something surprising is that those who strongly oppose technological innovation are those who have the closest relationship with their existing IT deployment. Curiously, this boycott takes a cheaty way: While providing verbal support for technological innovation, the practical move is to hinder technological innovation as much as possible.

One particularly interesting thing is the role cloud computing plays in this technological innovation.

Gelden got his first impression of technological innovation at the Local Maker Faire. This is the 6th year of the show. Weekend 120,000 people visited the show. It is a festival of hacking and amateurs celebrating creative and technological innovations. Although many participants showed something very stupid, Goldent was surprised by the level of technological innovation demonstrated by many participants.

The Spitout Dragon on display at the festival is an example of the foolish nature of technological innovation at this festival.

The arrangement of the festival is very common, just like the rural open-air market during the Great Depression. Booth is rough, usually not very advanced. It is a huge noisy market, but it is also a hotbed of creative activity and technological innovation.

At the entrance, there is an interesting booth that shows how affordable technology can bring design to new markets, especially to children. Autodesk Launches a Free iPad App. Children can download and create new designs. (Of course, anyone can download, but the Autodesk representatives on the scene said the goal of the program was to get children involved in the design.)

Very good, right? The really cool thing is that this design can be downloaded and got the local TechShop (technical factory). There, these designs can be cut into cardboard and assembled. This will give the designer an experience of seeing the physics of his own design. With this example, the dinosaurs that Autodesk represents on the next page of pictures can be created in this way.

Create activities + iPad + TechShop + cardboard = huge dinosaur (Figure)

This opportunity will be rewarded with the ability to create and repeat a design, produce and assemble a product through one product lifecycle and learn to progressively improve the product through experimentation. This process will teach people many life skills, including discovering new skills to learn.

There are some extreme and feasible technological innovations in the education sector. In fact, it has a building dedicated to education. In the showcase, there are many education-oriented startups creating apps and products designed to help students learn math, English and other subjects. All of this takes a direct approach. Advanced methods of the game can help build skills in important education areas.

Education is an area that urgently needs technological innovation. Professionals in this area are talking about continually improving this area. However, their approach is to strengthen the one-to-many, teacher-led organizational structure that has been adopted for the past 150 years. Gelden said the structure is very broad in this area. Although there are currently new capabilities and learning technologies that can more effectively apply and leverage the convenience of technology and cost advantages, the old organizational structure still exists.

Cloud Computing: Groundhog Day for IT Conferencing Circuit

The chances of using technology for peer learning and self-control are obvious. However, new approaches are often curtailed, or considered too disruptive to existing deployments. Gelden said he heard the most common reservations about the use of technology in this area were the inability of many teachers to adapt or experience the use of technology. This is a clear example of how an organization can resist technological innovation. Such technological innovations will subvert the existing methods and practices. These agencies insisted that existing methods must be maintained and strengthened to ensure successful outcomes.

Turning to IT technological innovations, Goldent has participated in three meetings over the past two weeks. The two conferences are mainstream IT conferences focused on cloud computing. The third conference, Gluecon, is a developer-oriented conference focused on emerging technology trends. The contrast between these two types of meetings for technological innovation is different.

In both mainstream conferences, many of the conference processes are focused on a single question: "How do you make cloud computing safer and easier to use?" This issue has been asked many in presentations and discussions over the past four years Times. Frankly, given that this year's cloud computing conference is much like the 2008 conference, it could be a groundhog day. The whole impression is that while everyone recognizes the importance of cloud computing for IT technology innovation, the speed of cloud computing should be controlled in an acceptable and deployable way as IT prepares itself.

Gelden said he has had a frustrating problem holding a seminar on the total cost of ownership of cloud computing. He just announced his meeting and one participant raised his hand and asked a question, "What about security?" His tone seems to be saying, "How can I solve the security problem that I might encounter when I put my workload in the cloud?" This is a skeptical and stubborn attitude that hinges uncompromisingly on any kind of public cloud application.

"After I answered his question, he subsequently raised the issue of rogue IT, and I pointed out that one's" rogue IT "was another person who" finished my job. "He replied , Which is entirely about governance and his tone suggests that those who go their own ways will ultimately wake up and dutifully return to the IT department-controlled field deployment plan where the only cloud used is the IT department's installation And running cloud.In general, both mainstream IT meetings have a clear IT climate, indicating that there will be no change in the speed of cloud applications until the IT department is satisfied with everything.

In addition, Gerald feared people accused him of exaggerating the attitude, turning his attention to a blog post by Novell's Richard Whitehead. Whitehead used a handy "PASTA" in that blog to explain how the IT department blocked IT. What does the first A mean? Amnesty, giving employees a chance to express their opinions without fear of retaliation. That way, you'll know who the cloud application is actually using. The dictionary website defines "amnesty" as "the act of forgiving past crimes, especially for a group of people as a whole." In my opinion, this is a very vivid illustration of this attitude.

You can not use yesterday's solution to tomorrow's problems

Gluecon, on the other hand, is a festival of IT. The conference focused on managing advanced technologies for distributed, disconnected, asynchronous applications. These applications will manage a large number and size. Unlike other people-focused conferences featuring Docker-branded clothing and ties, Gluecon meetings are all in jeans and t-shirts. Participants are indifferent developers and hackers.

This meeting can be summarized as "discussing APIs all the time" (application programming interface). John Musser of Programmable Websites delivered a speech entitled "Open API: What is Hot, What's Not Hot." A slideshow shows that there are 1 billion API calls a day. Companies on the list include Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as companies such as Saber and AT & T.

However, this meeting is not about the joy of sharing programming with technicians. Instead, the conference was a group of people focused on solving the technical challenges in engineering and trying to figure out how to build applications that could support countless scales and dynamism. The successful design of an enterprise application cluster with a stable software stack is totally inadequate to support a new class of applications. They are outdated T-cars in the current Indianapolis 500 Grand Prix.

What's fun? Cloud computing was not mentioned at all at Gluecon. No one talked about the use of cloud computing environment. The availability and use of a large number of scalable, dynamically shared resources is analogous to the fact that one who goes out for a walk in the morning does not have to bother to tell one another that it is now possible to breathe fresh air. Obviously there is fresh air.

The incumbent is concerned about the disruptive requirements of IT technology innovation

The contrast between these meetings is very clear. IT costs have plummeted, enabling the development of incredible technological innovations for technology. This has led some groups and individuals to withdraw from the show on the festival. At the same time, successful institutions strive to respond. These institutions are hamstrung by processes, people and products that are not suitable for changing environments. Witnessing the response of the incumbent, Gerald felt they were going to make that disruptive fit. They insist it will fit into what is already there.

There is no doubt that those in office face many challenges in responding to new developments in IT. These new developments are to maintain the current practice as we adopt the new approach. It is very difficult to make the old practice an outdated one. However, such a clear feeling inevitably emerges from these disruptive meetings. Their development is irresistible.

It is pointless, outdated and irrelevant to trying to stubbornly block the wave of change. Technological innovation will win. It remains to be seen how the agency eventually looks after the disruptive accomplishment.