Time was that developers and companies needed to provide their own server infrastructure and architecture to create, develop and launch Web applications or manage their internal IT. Not so much anymore.
With Amazon leading the way, and Google among other heavies rolling out solutions of their own, computing and especially the applications we’re growing to love are all out in the ‘cloud’. Today, Information Week named Amazon’s 50-year-old CTO Werner Vogels Chief of the Year for his role in developing and implementing Amazon’s cloud computing platform that’s now used by approximately 400,000 developers. And, perhaps more importantly, for changing attitudes about how think of computers, networks and applications in relation to the Intertubes.
Werner claims it’s only “day one” of the cloud. We say, congratulations. (Disclosure: Yes, we use AWS to host and deliver content)
