After the "Green Computing", next new Buzz Word is "Cloud Computing". And as a rule-of-thumb all technologies start slow with skepticism from especially large enterprises like IBM & Microsoft, which themselves send their Elephants & Horses in the Battle Field soon skepticism fades away as early adopters of the technology takes it and provide feedback.
Cloud Services came up as the need of clubbing Software as a Service(SaaS), Database as a Service(DaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS), Software plus Service(S+S) etc.
CCRS Criteria (Cost Control Reliability Security) will decide in selecting one of the GIM Players (Google-IBM-Microsoft).
On doing a quick weapon comparison, here is what I see:
1. Microsoft announced its S+S strategy in 2007 as a foundation of the cloud computing model, and then came up with hosted messaging, exchange, sharepoint etc. IBM in turn prepared the answer as LotusLive suite offerings in 2008.
2. Windows Azure was launched in Jan 2010 as the developer, service hosting & service management platform. IBM had its Smart business development, IBM Cloudburst, CoD (Computing on Demand) ready against it.
But the cloud services platforms are in their infancy and have not yet matured either in business models or technology. But having GIM Players adds credibility to its future access. It is good to have low cost service, but the key questions are around: Security & Reliability. One who will focus on key points now instead of Marketing the existing solution should win the Battle!
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