Introduction: One consistent theme during Cloud Connect 2013 was the cloud as a disrupter of IT organizations. During the Cloud Executive Summit workshop on April 2nd, Avery Lyford of LEAP Commerce said that there were three huge areas of disruption: the mobile cloud, Big Data (analytics) and Software Defined Networking (SDN). Each of these areas were then explored as disrupters by three excellent speakers. We were especially impressed with the presentation by Andre Kindness of Forrester Research who candidly stated that SDN is an evolution; not a revolution and it will take 5 to 7 years for the technology to mature. PLUMGrid’s SDN presentation on April 5th was also very enlightening. It’s described later in this Cloud Connect wrap-up article. While the majority of Cloud Connect 2013 sessions focused on building private or hybrid clouds, McKinsey & Company consultants Will Forrest and Kara Sprague proposed a very different, and extremely disruptive scenario for cloud adoption. Like IDC, McKinsey sees the future of IT (“New IT”) in public cloud computing. But McKinsey goes a lot further. The prestigious market consulting firm thinks public cloud operations may be managed by a separate IT organization, created specifically to reside outside of the existing [...]
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