How the digital revolution is cloud powered

The Digital Revolution : how the cloud

enables innovation, (and everybody wins)

Perry Hewittperry_hewitt@harvard.edu

@perryhewitt

We paid for, named, and nurtured our pets.

h/t Bill Baker

But now we’re maintaining our web infrastructure more like a herd of cattle.

Photo credit: AmberSky235

Source: http://xkcd.com/908/

Beware techno-utopia: not all problems are solved

enterprise enablement

Using the cloud to advance … speed to launch initiatives like mobile campus

Using the cloud to advance … measurement capabilities (including real-time web, media)

Using the cloud to advance … services to improve social integration

campus innovation

https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

The LibraryCloud API makes available catalog information about 12.3M items in the Harvard Library.

The aim is to make everything libraries know available to everyone on the web, and to enable and encourage the collaborative development of these apps and many more.

http://www.librarycloud.org/api

350 teams in the i-Lab Venture Incubation Program since January 2012 – with student founders representing every Harvard school.

Developers are creating more complex and distributed applications with terabytes of data and multiple independent services. Isn't it time their development environments caught up?

www.bowery.io

2 parting thoughts

student empowerment

1. Make sure your culture’s caught up to speed of tech. Innovate, iterate, rinse, repeat. It’s about change management.

2. Get ready for what cloud will do to as well as for your business. Who are your new competitors?

thank youPerry Hewitt

perry_hewitt@harvard.edu@perryhewitt