I was meeting with IT execs at a Fortune 50 company today and got asked "What three things should be on our radar screen in 2010?" The three that stand out in my mind are cloud computing, IT budget cuts (mirroring the rest of the enterprise), and all things Google. And the three go hand-in-hand.
The Internet has been driving down the cost of doing business for years. In 2010, cloud computing and online apps will drop the price to a lower plateau. Upstart businesses, who can't get business loans these days, are enabled because they understand you don't need your own data center loaded with servers anymore. Corporate leaders are quickly getting wise to this movement. Their IT departments cost a fortune. For the head honchos, the game-changing potential of cloud computing is extremely intriguing.
Businesses that combine the cloud with data analytics and Google (present and future) apps and mix in some creative ingenuity will be able to do some big things in improving their sales and their bottom line.
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