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Cloud Computing Proponent Quits Microsoft After Causing Revolution

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On October 18th BBC News reported that “Ray Ozzie, chief software architect of Microsoft and proponent of cloud computing, [had] resigned unexpectedly. Mr Ozzie was a top member of the company’s management, having taken over the software role from Bill Gates.”

By challenging the company to make more use of the web and to move away from the old school hardware systems that were in place, Ozzie revolutionised the way in which Microsoft functioned. According to CEO Steve Ballmer, the cloud is now “… full speed ahead in all aspects of [their] business.”

However this success has come through no lack of hard graft. When joining the company five years ago, The Daily Telegraph writes that “Mr Ozzie, 54, told executives that unless it adapted its software and the way it was sold “our business as we know it is at risk.””

His persistence and belief in the idea of Cloud Computing has revived Microsoft and hurled it favorably into the now and with emerging technical leaders in the business, Ozzie know his work as a catalyst is done.

And so by taking a step back and examining the facts maybe we can ask the question: if a business as established as Microsoft has had to embrace Cloud Computing and adapted itself in order to fulfill its potential, shouldn’t that be a lesson to us all?


How the Cloud Changed the World’s Oldest Newspaper

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Computer World recently published a very insightful article by Bernard Golden, regarding how The Daily Telegraph embraced Cloud Technology to cut costs but also to increase the offering that they provide to their readers. He writes:

The most fascinating presentation of the event was by Toby Wright, CTO of the Telegraph Media Group, publisher of the Daily Telegraph, the oldest continuously publishing newspaper in the world. Wright presented a cloud adoption strategy that was compelling, to say the least.

Daily Telegraph Cloud Graphic

As background, it’s no secret that the newspaper business is in a terrible state. My local paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, suffered something like a 30% drop in circulation over the past five years. The Telegraph is also suffering a continuous shrinkage in circulation as well. So when Wright took over responsibility for IT, his first task was cost-cutting. His next was changing the way IT works at the Telegraph, and cloud computing is a central part of that process.

I was struck by how much the Telegraph is “living the cloud vision.” While other companies are performing cloud strategy assessments or implementing pilot experiments, the Telegraph is moving headlong into an asset-lite, cloud computing future.

To read more of this article, head over to Computer World.