Sunday, November 23, 2008

"Cloud Computing" - Who stands to gain in the value-chain?

"The conventional wisdom is that cloud computing is about the delivery of IT services over Internet pipes at dramatically lower cost, with massive elasticity and scalability. Software as a Service, open source, Web 2.0, the consumerization of technology, globalization -- yesteryear's buzzwords -- are a piece of the story, but cloud computing is bigger than the sum of its pieces"- Gartner
Google, MS and yahoo are investing more than 5 billion USD, IBM is playing big with close to a billion dollar DC investments, and smaller vendors/service providers jumping in with their PoVs on how cloud computing can help, it would be interesting to understand as to what is in store for customers, mediators and hosting giants.

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