| All pointing skywards for cloud computing |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Sunday, 24 May 2009 | |
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This take on the development of cloud computing comes from industry analysts, Coda Research Consultancy, who reckon there’s nothing short of a “radical transformation” going on across the technology world, and, “it’s called cloud computing.” “For many commentators, cloud computing is the future of all computing, whilst for other commentators, much coverage is hype, and cloud computing is not significantly different from current and even older technologies and ways of doing computing.“ Despite strong growth predictions, senior director at Coda, Steve Smith, says many questions remain around revenues, cost, security, vendor lock-in, standards and the roles it has to play among different organisations. “IT users who do not begin to evaluate cloud computing for their businesses risk seeing their competitiveness, productivity, customer loyalty and revenues all decline relative to their competitors. The 17 percent growth in cloud computing over the next six year predicted by Coda, if achieved, would bring revenues worldwide to $180 billion by 2015, from a mere $46 billion just last year. CONTINUED page 2 |
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