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Like EMC acquisition news, talk about cloud computing just won’t go away.
We can agree on the characteristics of cloud computing, but have we really stopped to think about the growth of the cloud computing and storage?
George Crump recently called my attention to this issue on his blog at Byte and Switch.
Actual definitions aside, we have lost sight of how big the cloud industy grown over the years and how it has impacted its two sectors: the provider and the infrastructure.
Crump writes…
Broadly there are two types of companies involved in cloud computing and cloud storage; there are the providers of the customer facing service and there are the providers of the infrastructure that these services run on. In the early days of cloud related service many companies provide both the infrastructure and a service.
When there is a shakeout in the cloud market it will be on the infrastructure side of the equation, something I will cover in my next entry. What I call the provider side is the side of the cloud that you use and interact with, it is the customer facing interface and it is the provider side where we will experience the exponential growth of the cloud.
Clearly there will be turnover in the provider side, they will come and go, but when one company disappears five more will take its place. What the cloud brings to this type of company is the ability to leverage an infrastructure. They can in essence provide what used to be a hardware and software solution to potential customers and not have to actually provide the most expensive part; the hardware, they can leverage a cloud infrastructure provider for that.
This part of the cloud will be brimming with storage solutions ranging from collaboration to backup to archive and yes, eventually to secondary and primary storage. Because of the Cloud the cost of entry is lower than ever. All you need is a smart developer that can identify and address a market need and have them go to work. By comparison to deliver a turnkey solution today requires an additional hardware investment both upfront and ongoing, to a large extent the cloud removes this.
And he goes on to say…
The infrastructure space is the section of the market that the pressure will be on. One where I expect a fair amount of growth in the number of companies in the space and then a significant shakeout or consolidation as we reach critical mass.
Online storage is the wave of the future.
But, folks, we WILL reach critical mass. And when we do, the question will be: Now what?
Until then, I guess all we can do is sit back and enjoy all the cloud has to offer - low cost, easy use, and less hardware.
Can we really ask for anything more?
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