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With the rise of social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, we have started to take over the role as both consumers and creators of data. However, the Internet, web servers and web application servers were initially designed for the mid-1990s Internet scenario to allow people to access information quickly rather than create the information themselves.

When passionate software developers get to work in the morning (or in the middle of night) what do you think they look forward to doing? Is it:

A)  Looking for updates to runtimes, installing them, testing to make sure they work correctly, and then calling the operations staff to get that stuff deployed everywhere; or,

B) Firing up their IDE of choice and cranking out code.

A purist may argue that the lack of a "prescription" for application development when in the cloud makes for haphazard results. However, the ever-evolving smorgasbord of services that the cloud offers to developers of all types is proving to be irresistibly tasty.

The changing face of APIs

At the end of June, I attended my second GigaOM Structure conference of the year and of my life. First was the Big Data soiree in NYC in the spring, and I have just been to the San Francisco-based Cloud love-in. Rather than do a play by play of the latest event, I’ll put forth an observation that is still sticking with me, which is usually a good indicator of importance: Now, I know you are all on the edge of your seat in anticipation of what I noticed above all else. Similar to the Prius’ you see on the highway, our future is hybrid and when it comes to the cloud - one size clearly does not fit all.

My last post started what will be a long theme on how data is driving big changes in the cloud and systems platforms. Interestingly enough, it is the nature of existing data in enterprises that is driving cloud platforms to live inside enterprises. That's right-get ready for a cloud invasion in the enterprise environment. 

Looking at the "then vs. now" differences in the data platform.

Buzz Lightyear might disagree, but cloud is a platform, not a destination.