The cloud computing moniker just doesn’t include enough and doesn’t bring us to the next stage. In the words of Huey Lewis, we need a “new drug.”

So join our panel of analysts to help dig into this current and budding new era of IT: Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Brad Shimmin, senior analyst, Current Analysis; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and ZDNet blogger, and Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink.

Schmelzer: We could say that we’re still floating through the information era, but … I’m going to bring back the drug theme here. We like to self-medicate in IT. We have these chronic problems that we seem to be continuously trying to solve.

They’re the same problems–getting systems to talk to each other, to extract information, and to make it all work. We try one drug after the other and they provide these short-term fixes. Then, there’s the inevitable crash afterward, and we just never seem to solve the underlying problem.

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