Enterprises have significant investments in cloud
Last week, I was invited to talk about Cloud Computing Use Cases, for the workshop organized by HYSEA. It was very encouraging to see that house was full with >250 people attending the show.
One of the speakers gave a very good analogy of "Swine Flu" for the hype around cloud computing and called it as "The Cloud Flu". While I agree with the analogy; there are several things that needs to be considered before concluding the hype or otherwise. I have talked about the following in my earlier blog entries that helps demystifying the hype:
- How enterprises have benefited from cloud?
- What CXOs & Analysts are saying?
- The Economics of Cloud Computing
- The Cloud ROI Framework
In this post, I will aggregate & summarize serious investments made by large enterprise & VCs in cloud computing.
Cloud Computing Investments
- >150 players offering cloud services
- Microsoft will set up 20 data centers over the next 20 years at a cost of a billion dollars each
- IBM will construct a $360 million, state-of-the-art cloud data center
- VMware Invests $20 Million In Terremark Cloud Services
- >20 Venture Capitals have invested in >15 cloud companies - the list here
- VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds - $70MN invested
Help me grow this list with your pointers.
Comments
Nice articulation Bhavin! Cloud Flu is THE word these days. To me cloud computing is the future of enterprise solutions at least. The main reasons as per me are:
1. Clouds can provide an almost immediate access to hardware resources
2. No upfront capital investments for users
3. Cloud computing can lower IT barriers to innovation and increase interoperability between disjoint technologies
4. Pay-per-use billing dramatically reduces upfront costs
5. Enterprises of all sizes can seamlessly scale their services in correlation with client demand
It is just a matter of time when we will see a mad rush in the organizations to go after Clouds.
Posted by: Puneesh | September 3, 2009 05:55 AM
Thanks Puneesh,
You seem to be supply-chain guru from your blog.
I would request you to also share your ideas / thoughts to create "vertical cloud solutions" say for e.g. supply-chain domain - how do you suggest to create vertical focused business value?
I know horizontal value is bit easier.
Posted by: Bhavin Jayantilal Raichura | September 3, 2009 04:37 PM
I came across a very interesting cloud taxomony here:
http://www.opencrowd.com/views/cloud.php
&
http://peterlaird.blogspot.com/2009/05/cloud-computing-taxonomy-at-interop-las.html
Posted by: Bhavin Jayantilal Raichura | September 14, 2009 06:04 AM
good startups..
rgds
pallab
http://cloudtronics.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Pallab | October 5, 2009 06:01 AM