As the underlying concept of Cloud Computing technology relies mainly on user collaboration, it has become even more important for organizations to understand the needs of their clients and the medium to reach their customers and consumers. Below are some comments quoted by industry experts...
“2008 will be remembered as the coming-out year for cloud-computing services. I’m beginning to think that 2009 will be best remembered for cloud-computing understanding. I encourage you to get involved.” - James Urquhart
"Cloud computing is emerging as a fundamental change in how IT is managed and delivered," said Dr. Willy Chiu, vice president of IBM High Performance on Demand Solutions. "It is a powerful tool for efficient operations, especially in growth economies."
Source: IBM.com
"Businesses requiring hyper-scale computing environments – where infrastructure deployments are measured by up to millions of servers, storage and networking equipment – are changing the way they approach IT to drive revenue growth and decrease operational expenses,” said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell Product Group.
Source: Dell.com
The following videos in youtube, will give a notion of what cloud computing is, and the general trends by some of the industry experts...
The world of Internet is exploding tremendously. For example ―daily (Google users have created 20 Petabytes of data) or using eBay services (1 Terabyte of logs is created by embay users in 2000 application servers per day.
Cloud Computing has a major role to play in tying up this complicated layout and manage the explosion of data and users. These videos eventually shows how Cloud Computing has evolved from the traditional Application Service provision and support since the last decade.
