Learning Ecosystems

After Amazon, how many clouds do we need? — from gigaom.com by Barb Darrow

Excerpt:

With news that Google and Microsoft plan to take on the Amazon Web Services monolith with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds do we need?

This Google-Microsoft news broken this week by Derrick Harris,  proves to anyone who didn’t already realize it, that Amazon is the biggest cloud computing force (by far) and as such, wears a big fat target on its back. With the success of Amazon cloud services, which started out as plain vanilla infrastructure but have evolved to include workflow and storage gateways to enterprise data centers, Amazon’s got everyone — including big enterprise players like Microsoft, IBM and HP worried. Very worried.

Addendum on 7/2/12:

• Cloud computing for the people? It’s called SaaS. — from gigaom.com by Derrick Harris
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• IDC Issues Guides on Constructing Cloud Computing Infrastructure in China, Suggesting Users Construct Cloud Computing Infrastructures in Five Stages
  BEIJING, June 28, 2012 – International Data Corporation (IDC) recently pubished the report, Guides on Implementation of Cloud Computing Infrastructure Projects in China, which proposes roadmaps for Chinese enterprises in constructing cloud computing infrastructures. The report is based on IDC’s in-depth surveys on the current status of China’s cloud computing market. It aims at offering suggestions to enterprises and organizations that are constructing cloud computing infrastructures that will help them to deploy cloud platforms rapidly and successfully.
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• As clouds multiply, ComputeNext, a cloud marketplace, emerges — from gigaom.com by Om Malik
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• Content takes to the Cloud –– from connectedworldmag.com