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Quantifying Cloud Computing Market Share

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of analyses about the size and relative market share of vendors in the cloud computing space. According to a post in GigaOM, UBS Analysts estimate that “the total market for AWS-type services will be … Continue reading →

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Apple’s iCloud takes cloud computing beyond IaaS, PaaS and SaaS trinity

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Contemporary discussions about cloud computing typically revolve around the concepts of Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) constitutes the paradigmatic example of IaaS whereas Microsoft Azure … Continue reading →

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Top 3 Cloud Computing Market Trends for 2011

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

2011 has been an extraordinary year for cloud computing so far. Amazon Web Services (AWS) set the pace with an aggressive roll-out of products such as Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Amazon Cloud Player and Amazon Cloud Drive. Just when AWS seemed … Continue reading →

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Dell announces plans to invest $1 billion in cloud computing

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

Dell announced it plans to spend $1 billion in cloud computing products and services over the next fiscal year in an attempt to gain market share in an environment currently dominated by Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Rackspace and HP. Over … Continue reading →

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