Cloud in 2012

Found a great article by Mathew Lodge (@mathewlodge) about how cloud will change in the 2012 within the industry.  I think that most of these points are pretty easy to predict based on what we have seen in 2011, but I especially liked the fact that Amazon’s outages this year have brought attention to the fact that certain ‘cloud providers’ are not business ready and don’t even come close to providing the required SLA’s to satisfy business needs...

This shatters the notion that cloud computing is a commodity like electricity. It isn't -- the details matter, and what you don't know can hurt your cloud application. There are qualities of a cloud service like high availability that are delivered through investment in infrastructure, people and processes -- and that's what differentiates providers. Clouds engineered with little or no investment in high availability may be superficially cheap, but you'll have to pay to devise, code and operate your own availability systems from scratch.

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