Thanks to the team at The Cloud Factory in Canada for putting together a great event on the state of cloud technology — and its digital economy and innovation impact. Stunning backdrops, great ideas, and good debates about everything from pricing wars to cloud commoditization to flavors of Open Stack.

Below are the slides I presented on  innovation made possible by the cloud for the theme of “democratizing the enterprise.” Now that we’ve moved beyond the first step for creating a web initiative being “write a million dollar check for some servers,” we’re seeing products and services that can focus more time to delivering value and iterating fast, rather than developing datacenter protocols.