Customers Lead the Charge When It Comes to Cloud Use

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Eric Lundquist.

I attended the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit this week, which was the same week that Apple, VMware, Microsoft and Amazon issued robust quarterly financial reports. You might not think the conference and earnings reports are linked, but the trends discussed at the conference are already showing up in the vendor’s numbers.

So what were the trends? Certainly, cloud computing was a big topic. But cloud computing is not new and the question is now what happens after the cloud frenzy?   The characteristics of cloud computing:  capacity on demand and Internet standards as the basis for communicating were evident in the financial sphere and the conference floor…


Amazon doesn’t specifically break out its Web Services operation, but it is a good bet the Seattle digital giant’s cloud platform is now cooking along at about $1 billion per quarter.  Meanwhile, at the Bloomberg conference, Infor President Duncan Angove described how Infor has re-architected its products to run on the Amazon platform and the company is transitioning to a subscription-based model with a focus on key vertical industries, including health care…

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