Front Runners and Dark Horses in the Cloud Computing Race
April 15, 2014
Grazed from MarketStrategies. Author: Paul Hartley.
Who will own the future of cloud computing? This is a hot topic for those of us in the technology and communications groups at Market Strategies International. Cloud computing is an industry that has been expanding at a steady 18-20% for the past few years and is predicted to top $200 billion by 2016. The growth is impressive, but it is the highly dynamic nature of the market that has us really intrigued.
Cloud Computing’s 800-Pound Gorilla
“Dynamic?” I hear you ask, “Surely it’s been game-set-match to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for some time now?” And you would be partially right. AWS clearly dominates the public cloud computing space. Its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business has five times the utilized compute capacity of the next 14 cloud providers combined, and along with its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business, AWS generates annual revenues of nearly $4 billion…
Put in perspective, that’s more than IBM, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce combined. Such dominance is unlikely to erode much in the short-term. But AWS will see stiffer competition in 2014 from the likes of Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle and even Cisco – all tech juggernauts with far deeper pockets and a strong desire to claim their share of the $200 billion pie…
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