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IT is an acronym-crazed world. So crazy that sometimes - when running out of three letter ones - we simply recycle them or add sequence numbers. Remember MRP, which used to mean Material Requirements Planning, but the became Manufacturing Resource Planning (called MRP II to avoid confusion) to only a couple of years later resurface as ERP. Take a look at CPR (cloud process re-engineering) too...

The cloud has delivered us into a radical new world; a world where lean manufacturing principles can be applied to tech infrastructure development. But are enterprise IT organisations willing, or able, to seize the potential benefits?

Although the EU does a good job describing in non technical terms what cloud is and why Europe needs it, it kind of stops there.

Not all major changes are visible to the naked eye. Standing next to a glacier it is difficult to determine direction (does it grow or shrink across seasons) and watching continents move takes even some stamina for the casual observer. Luckily this is not the case for cloud computing.

Edison is believed to have said “genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”, and nine out of ten times “implementation trumps innovation” when it comes to achieving commercial success, but is it just me, or has the well of new ideas around cloud computing run a bit dry recently?

A few days ago I attended the analyst summit of one of Europe’s large service providers and the theme of industrialization rang through very clearly in many of the presentation and interview sessions. Those of you who followed my earlier writings know that applying the lessons of modern manufacturing to today’s IT, is a topic near to my heart. 

The public cloud infrastructure as a service market is developing quickly, also in Europe. Over the past months we saw the number of international IaaS providers setting up shop in Europe increase, while also several European based providers launched new or upgraded offerings.

Earlier this week Yahoo Finance ran an article on the 10 most hated jobs. What amazed me most - apart from the large number of IT jobs, including the top one,  making the list – was that I personally was employed in no less than five of these.