Google, Amazon and Facebook will gobble up cloud competition

Grazed from Computing.co.uk. Author: Danny Palmer.

Major cloud providers such as Google, Amazon and Facebook will "gobble up" the competion as smaller providers struggle to compete with what the giants have to offer. That’s what Josko Grljevic, information systems director for TheTrainline.com told Computing ahead of next month’s Computing Data Centre Summit, where he’s going to be one of many high profile speakers.

"I think you’re going to have a lot more of these mega-data centres, with the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft building massive facilities," he said on the subject of the future of data centres.  "They’re probably going to gobble up the smaller guys over time," Grljevic continued, pointing out that the competition will struggle to compete with the low-cost solutions on offer…

"I think you’re going to see a bigger push to public cloud, and that’s why these guys are building out their data centres. They can provide a really cheap underlying platform and I think it’s going to get to the point where you just can’t hope to compete with them on cost and provision and flexibility," he said…

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