Cloud Computing and Hannibal Let You Be You

Recently, The Federal Government announced it will offer Cloud Computing to federal agencies through Apps.gov. As Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, recently pointed out in his blog, the move comes as a result of the realization that there is too much effort spent on managing IT infrastructure. Amazon realized this years ago and created Amazon Web Services to help alleviate this cross organizational concern.

Cloud Computing solves this problem by turning Infrastructure into a utility. By abstracting the key problems and offering a simple way to manage IT Infrastructure allows an organization to focus on the real task at hand.

We have observed the same phenomenon of duplicated effort in creating software. We have taken the philosophy of automating wherever possible to solve many common problems of creating an application. Hannibal takes care of creating the core of a web application, from persistence to presentation.

Hannibal enables you to focus on creating interesting applications instead of worrying about the common problems of creating an application. The same way Cloud Computing lets you focus on more important things besides IT Infrastructure.