What is Cloud computing?
By Asavin Wattanajantra,
Zorbas doesn't think so. He believes that the big companies are lined up to build infrastructure and provide services, and economically it needs huge scalability to be effective.
Purser agreed: “Cloud computing by definition is about being able to handle scalability problems, and I really don’t see small surviving.”
However, not everybody agreed. Guy Bunker, chief scientist at Symantec, predicted that we would see a new proliferation of cloud computing service providers which would be able to deliver niche services.
He said: “I wouldn’t like to say Salesforce.com was niche with CRM, but it’s a very good example of a very small provider when it started.”
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