CloudBus

Today I had the honor to address a small focused group of  Chartered Accountants ( the Indian CPA)  on cloud computing. Their ability to grasp quickly the business benefits, the huge economics by moving to OPEX and  their experience in financing cost and time over run IT projects made them see the benefits of cloud computing adoption. The local Chapter of ICAI have now decided to include Cloud Computing in their Continuing Education was heartening. The Accountant will Harvest the Benefits of Cloud ! Many of them were seasoned system auditors and senior professionals in government and corporate in Mumbai. It was indeed a pleasure to see how quickly they could identify the challenges in cloud computing from a legal and data security point of view and its offering as an utility. They were quick to seize the benefits of cloud computing for business, the accelerated time to market  and the benefits of starting small with a few SAAS cloud solutions and al...

Cloud Computing has been changing the global business landscape and the Academics in Business Schools find it a challenge to keep pace. Today most of the successful businesses are in the cloud, be it Amazon, Facebook, Twitter , Google, blogs, Rackspace,  the list is endless. These companies have created more wealth in less then a decade compared to the stalwarts in the old economy. Mobility strategy changes every quarter and yesterday's icons have to jump-start all over with a leap of   faith that their solutions will be adopted by the consumer. Social media has flattened the world and the distances have just shrunk, solutions like YouTube has changed the way we can learn, Wikipedia has become the world's largest and best knowledge portal. The challenge for Business School academia is how to prepare their students in this fast changing world . The students have access to knowledge in their finger tips which challenges thei...