October 12, 2011
It started out, in an airy room on the top floor of London’s Royal Festival Hall last month, as a discussion of how the cloud will shape the future of application development. It ended up casting doubt on the very existence of the IT department as a separate entity within the enterprise. Cloud, it seems, will transform IT more than most people dare imagine.
The participants at last month’s EuroCloud UK meeting were a cross-section of cloud integrators and vendors, including speakers from Bluewolf, Fujitsu and Grove Group, with contributions from members such as Digital Sabre and Salesforce.com, which hosted the fringe event at Cloudforce London. There was no one there to defend the status quo, and as so often happens at EuroCloud UK meetings, the discussion headed off in unmapped directions. That’s part of the magic of bringing practitioners together in this still emerging but rapidly growing industry.
