Stephen Fry on the revolution of Cloud Computing

From the ancient Sumerian's invention of the abacus, right through to Tim Berners-Lee's pioneering of the World Wide Web - humans have always been inspired by the ability that technology has to change the way we live.

We find ourselves at the dawn of an exciting new era in technology: the era of utility computing.

Cloud computing, as household legend Stephen Fry explains in this animation, has the potential to do for today's businesses what the Industrial Revolution did for mass production. Cloud services are all about utility. Just like electricity and water, we now have the power to turn our computing on and off, or scale it up or down, at the flick of a switch.

As Mr. Fry quite nicely puts it: people don't want the power station, they want the light. Businesses don't want to buy an entire data centre; they want to be able to click a button and power on as many or as few virtual machines as they need, and just pay for those.

We live in a world where we can scale memory, processing and storage at the touch of a button while only ever paying for the amount we use. The flexibility and choice organisations now have at their fingertips is almost limitless.

Like the pioneers of the industrial revolution, business leaders of today understand that the power of technology lies in what it can deliver to them and their customers. They need to serve their customers faster and better than ever before. Cloud allows them to do that without the hefty price-tag that on-premise computing bears.

Watch the full animation here:

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