(5/8 - Updated numbers below) At the Gartner Outsourcing and Vendor Management Summit in Las Vegas there was a substantial amount of discussion regarding the size of the market for Cloud Computing. Gartner pegs the 2008 number at a rather lofty $46 billion, going to $150 billion by 2013. I spoke with Gartner analyst Ben... Continue Reading →
Gartner looks at the 6 attributes listed above to define cloud computing. For me two key ones are elasticity and metering by usage. If you can scale up and down as you need the cloud, and pay accordingly, that's when the cloud computing model has the most value. They also see the cloud services... Continue Reading →
The basic premise of Symform is that your data is stored on my computers, and mine on yours. Or more precisely, a very small portion of my data, super-encrypted, resides on the servers of many other customers.
Over the next 10-15 years millions of systems now operated in-house will be ported to the cloud. An increasing number of new applications will be built specifically for cloud environments. There will be opportunities across all aspects of enterprise IT to profit from this wholesale shift. How will you participate?
There is so much going on in the cloud computing space, but there are few places to find information on the companies, technologies and users. So, we give you CloudBzz -- all the Bzz on Cloud Computing.
John Treadway 