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Cloud Computing Commentary from Bruce Cleveland
Below are selected posts on Cloud Computing from Bruce Cleveland's blog.
Cloud Computing...in Bed
March 24th, 2010 § 4 Comments
You know a market is heating up when it feels like every company, start up or incumbent, is taking a position in it. That's certainly the way it feels with 'Cloud Computing'. Every company I meet with now seems to have some sort of Cloud Computing angle.
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HP Microsoft Announcement on Cloud Computing - Do You Believe?
January 16th, 2010 § 1 Comment
On Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 HP and Microsoft made a joint announcement covered in this BusinessWeek article stating that both companies "will spend $250 million over three years to combine some research and development efforts and deliver prepackaged servers, storage, software, and networking gear. According to Steve Ballmer, "cloud computing is the driving force" behind the initiative.
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Cloud Computing - What's Driving the Transformation?
September 11th, 2009 § 6 Comments
I recently came across a guest post from Savinay Berry on PrivateEquityCentral.net. Savinay is a vice president with Granite Ventures and the article is an overview of the Cloud Computing market. I thought it was a very good article that helps explain what is driving the growth of this market and he also renders his opinion regarding investment opportunities (for entrepreneurs this translates into 'business opportunities') that this new form of computing may provide.
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Forecasting the Winners in the Cloud Computing/SaaS Market
August 24th, 2009 § 2 Comments
Trying to determine which companies will emerge to be the future leaders in the cloud computing market is still fairly difficult. A poll taken by Saugatech last year revealed that 51% of the respondents "didn't know or weren't sure which company would be the next 'master brand'".
While at the application level, it's easy to view Salesforce.com as the star of that sector, it gets a little murky as you move to other functional areas of the front and back office as well as down the overall cloud 'stack'. As with most nascent markets, the market is highly fragmented: CoLo/Managed Services (e.g. Rackspace, OpSource, many others), Infrastructure/Platform (e.g. Amazon, Salesforce.com, VMWare, many others), Tools (e.g. Salesforce.com, Corent, Serena, SAP/Coghead, many others), and some a mixture of 2 or more areas (e.g. Salesforce.com).
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