--- title: The world is changing: the future of IT | daily.dev description: An opinion piece argues that cloud platforms like Windows Azure are democratizing IT infrastructure, letting small startups access the same global-scale,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-world-is-changing-the-future-of-it-kqfz5ibxw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The world is changing: the future of IT | daily.dev og:description: An opinion piece argues that cloud platforms like Windows Azure are democratizing IT infrastructure, letting small startups access the same global-scale,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-world-is-changing-the-future-of-it-kqfz5ibxw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kQFz5IbxW.png og:image:alt: The world is changing: the future of IT og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The world is changing: the future of IT **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An opinion piece argues that cloud platforms like Windows Azure are democratizing IT infrastructure, letting small startups access the same global-scale, multi-datacenter capabilities once reserved for large organizations with their own datacenters. The author contends this shift favors agile, lean teams over slow-moving large organizations, and claims companies that fail to adopt cloud and as-a-service tools (source control, CRM, billing) will fall behind competitively. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What is cloud computing? 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