Yesterday, I visited the Cyberposium at Harvard Business School and was just amazed by the list of great speakers from CEO of HTC and Pandora and President of AOL Consumer Applications to general and product managers of FourSquare and Google Admobs. I was equally amazed by the variety of panel discussions such as Location Wars, Future of Touch, The New Living Room, Innovations in Enterprise Cloud Computing and Mobile and Future Gaming. 
One of really good speakers happened to be Diane Greene, the Founding Chief Executive Officer of VMware. She talked about the cloud and where it was heading in this day and age. Some of the her points are mentioned below-
- Open Source Stack for the cloud
- Disruption in the storage of information (infrastrucutre layer)
- Cloud datacenters make dumb routers possible (network layer)
- Cloud datacenter run an open source stack model (OS & Hypervisors)
- Shrinked wrapped software on the cloud possible(App layer)
She also mentioned that they are 3 ways for business to enter the cloud -
- Storage
- Application Development Platform
- Multitenant SaaS
The barriers for entering into the cloud are -
- Trust and Privacy issues
- Control (who will control the cloud?)
- Value of Innovation
- Migration
- Vested Interests
In summary, she mentioned the following -
- Large $ are being taken out of IT
- Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Oracle have huge $ reserves to move into the cloud and become leaders
- Tomorrow's large business will start in the cloud
- Tech power will shift to the to the massive datacenters with broad services suite
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