This interesting post on Games for Learning – Sun Blogs came across my Twitter client (Seesmic – nice but needs some work). Brandon Carso suggests that we don’t get too hung up on the technological aspects of cloud computing and instead take a step back and ponder what the cloud has to offer organizations and entrepreneurs…

Cloud computing turns “pay as you go” into a reality for businesses and individual entrepreneurs that want to get an idea to the marketplace quickly. Without the need for an expensive physical data center or requiring a large debt-load, businesses can try more “adventurous” ideas. If they fail, all that is required is to pay for services requested at the scale they were at when the plug is pulled, then “clear the deck” and go back to the drawing board. In this model, failure is OK. Failure doesn’t mean investors lose life savings, and banks aren’t stuck with bad loans.

OK to fail… When is the last time that crossed the mind of your CIO? I’ll still remain obsessed about the technology to make it possible, though…