Cloud-computing: what will be the fate of IP?
June 6, 2015
Grazed from IPFinance. Author: Editorial Staff.
Back on 18 April 2015 The Economist published an instructive summary, “The cheap, convenient cloud”, describing the changes being wrought to the IT industry by cloud-computing services. The piece first identified the leaders in providing cloud services, with Amazon way ahead of Microsoft, IBM, Google and Salesforce.
No real surprises here, except perhaps for the substantial lead that Amazon enjoys as a percentage of the overall market share, reported at nearly 30%. What was of greater interest for this blogger was the discussion that followed on the promise and the challenges facing various other actors in the cloud computing/IP space, namely:…
(1) big users of IT services and hardware; (2) the providers of online computing; the legacy makers of IP hardware and software and purveyors of the software to the cloud-service providers. Some will win, some will lose and new faces will likely appear. Less certain is the role that IP will play…
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