Sitting in a familiar coffee shop outside Victoria Station in Central London, I await the arrival of David D’Orazi, one of the foremost consultants within the cloud computing and virtualization industry.

Having spent the last five years analysing the way business technology has changed, I’m excited to meet D’Orazi who has over thirty years’ experience in enterprise technology solutions having held positions for a range of managed services vendors such as Selection Services and Commensus as well as being involved in several start-up firms.

My expectations are of a mature man who has witnessed the transition from the mainframe computer years through to the PC era and latterly through the dotcom boom to the rise and stagnation of cloud technologies; but as I meet D’Orazi again, I’m overwhelmed by the knowledge and expertise that he possesses and how the transition of technology has left a …