Cloud services – marking the margins

Grazed from Arnnet. Author: Nermin Bajric.

The impact of the Cloud, while undoubtedly massive in the long term, remains nebulous and hard to pin down, according to ICT experts. Yes, this ‘Cloud thing’ is making some serious noise, yet there are mixed messages wherever you look. Organisations which have overcome their fear of ‘it’ are looking to deploy, while Cloud services and solutions providers are scrambling to make ends meet in a growingly congested Australian market filled with confusion and, often, a lack of direction.

Add to that the fact that no one strategy has yet been determined as definitively successful (if there is such a thing), and it becomes a tough task. What is certain for now is that the multi-faceted Cloud market, on both the compute and services fronts, is chugging along; some components are ballooning, while others crawl…

According to IDC figures, Cloud computing climbed to a global estimated value of $US47.4 billion in 2013, with the analyst firm expecting it to reach $US107bn by 2017. IDC datacentre and Cloud vice-president, Rick Villars, said its 23.5 per cent compound annual growth rate is five times faster than that of the broader technology market…

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