04/16/09 :: [Cloud] Upgradability [permalink]
Cloud has many benefits that represent key adoption factors (KAFs).
The one that come most often are perhaps:
Elasticity -> Pay for use
Turnkey -> Low or no effort to set up environments and migrate solutions from one to another
I think however that Upgradability is going to be one of the major factor behind the cloud, i.e. the successful companies in the Cloud will have to provide services that are elastic, turnkey and upgradable. The ones that do not build upgradability at their core will eventually be out-graded.
Of course, Richard Webb will argue that Operability is another key aspect of the cloud, but that might come into play as you create composite solutions from different elements under different domains of control.
What do you think?