Their economy of scale will be difficult to match.
What about Microsoft - they are constrained by the fact that they have to defend their desktop business - which will prevent them from following optimal cloud strategy!
Cloud Computing Service
Service provider with large number of networked computer systems
Allowing you to use a slice of that processing power and storage
Shielding your program and data from others sharing the same service, and
Charging you for your actual usage
Value Proposition of Cloud Computing
Elastic Capacity - Pay for what you actually use
Economy of Scale - Of hardware, Infrastructure and Management
Comparison between Amazon EC2 and Google GAE Though different cloud service providers are following different strategies, these are the two uniquely different approaches. Others either are similar to one of these or fall somewhere in between.
I have excluded SaaS from this discussion - you can see the comparison between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS on this post on Cloud Strategy.
Their economy of scale will be difficult to match.
What about Microsoft - they are constrained by the fact that they have to defend their desktop business - which will prevent them from following optimal cloud strategy!
About Udayan Banerjee Udayan Banerjee an IT industry veteran who started his career in 1977. In his posts he mainly concentrates on looking at the IT scene and changing trends from an Indian perspective - and has a special interest in collective intelligence arising out of self-organizing complex systems.
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