The Cloud has become the latest marketing bandwagon for the Computing, Media and Telecommunications industries. New initiatives covering a range of technologies, services and business models have been conflated under this heading, with forecasts for dramatic growth in Cloud Computing and Services.
The Cloud offers some significant new high-margin revenue opportunities but those building Cloud services need to be aware of the challenges in building and running profitable, scalable services, including multi-tenancy, service management and optimization and appropriate business models.
Uday Phadke, 30 March 2009
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Sarita Jones, 03 October 2008
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Simon Fox, 25 September 2008
Intuit, the accounting systems and book-keeping solutions player, has confirmed it is moving into the Software as a Service market, with new applications in field services, inventory handling and sales management, which could see the company competing against Salesforce.com.
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Simon Fox, 22 September 2008
Amazon has announced a video-on-demand streaming service in the US as internet and consumer electronics companies try to match the capabilities of US cable and satellite providers. The internet retailer said that advertising-free movies and television shows could be watched instantly within a...
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Reiko Uchida, 05 September 2008