So I was at lunch last week in San Francisco when a guy in Blue shirt whizzed past me on his Razor, I thought nothing of it, until I saw the next guy a block over. It was not Deja vu, but a new car parking service called Luxe. No more hunting for Parking spots in the city, just fire up the app on your mobile device, the guy in the Blue shirt comes along, hand your keys off and you pick up your car when you are ready anywhere in the city for a fee. Isn't that the future?

Another example of the power of the Internet economy continuing is its relentless march redefining the foundations of industries from transportation to healthcare, and the power of reshaping the economies of countries from your smartphone. The democratization of computing via the cloud, any time anywhere access of data, and powerful mobile devices in our pockets form the foundation of this new economy. As we well know, this revolution started not in the sophisticated IT environments of Enterprises, but in the humble consumer segment when companies like Google and Facebook redefined the architecture to deliver services at massive scale. In doing so bringing an end to the Client-Server era and starting the era of Cloud computing.

Entrepreneurs have jumped in creating hundreds of companies with one crucial assumption, they are built on the Internet, which like power and water is considered a utility. The role of infrastructure in the Cloud era has evolved significantly from the Client Server era dominated as it were by Windows and PCs and the early Internet era dominated by Networking. While Moore's law continues its relentless march we've seen numerous technology innovations spring up and down the stack like opto-electrical chips, NAND flash, LTE, virtualization, software defined infrastructure, and Cloud-based applications. These applications are foundational to radical business models that are disrupting entire industries, everything from retailing, taxi, travel, and our social interactions.

In enterprise arena, the disruption of the business models is driving IT to fundamentally change from an operations orientation to an engine of innovation for the company. These new generation applications are designed to evolve rapidly with daily or weekly releases, scale up and down according to demand, and leverage data to help companies make rapid business decisions. This dynamic nature of applications and the inability of in house IT infrastructure have resulted in developers moving workloads into the 'Public' Cloud for agility and on demand capacity. IT departments are responding by re-architecting the infrastructure to create an internal Cloud platform with similar characteristics as the Public Cloud, for developers to build, deploy, and scale applications. These 'Private' clouds are built on the same core technologies such as multi-tenanted infrastructure, automation, Big Data analytics, and an application architecture that is infrastructure agnostic and massively scalable.

The Enterprise architecture for the cloud era is designed to support applications running in the Data Center, in the Public Cloud, SaaS instances leveraging data that is stored and accessed per secure policies. The Next Generation of Enterprise IT infrastructure is built on a few basic tenets:
1. Defined by the application workloads