Public cloud market to hit $191B by 2020

Security remains the biggest hurdle for cloud adoption, according to the report.(infra)

Security concerns aside, the public cloud market will hit $191B by 2020 | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Jordan Novet: "The public cloud market has taken a few years to take hold, but enterprises are starting to bite, and there’s more upside than you might have expected. In a new report today, Forrester forecasted that the public cloud market will reach $191 billion by 2020 — a figure almost 20 percent higher than a $160 billion estimate the analyst firm made three years ago. “While the last several years can best be characterized as exploratory for most enterprises, cloud services and cloud platforms are now an undeniable part of the IT landscape,” Forrester infrastructure analyst James Staten wrote in a blog post on the report. Basically, Staten wrote, the world has begun its shift to the second stage of cloud adoption. Or you could call it a hypergrowth phase. In recent months others have suggested the trend is playing out, and now a big analyst firm is confirming it....But impact of the cloud market’s expansion surely will also extend to the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. Amazon Web Services, the IaaS market leader, should be in for good times in the years to come. Fast-rising ones like Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and smaller but increasingly visible DigitalOcean are likely to enjoy the benefits of a bigger public cloud market in general...."

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Cloud Computing News Updates

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Demystifying Cloud Computing (video)

Demystifying Cloud Computing: Video - Bloomberg:

Rackspace Managing Director, Asia Pacific Ajit Melarkode and Accenture Managing Director and Technology Strategy Lead, APAC Jouni Hakanen discuss cloud computing, what its used for and why its so important to businesses with Mia Saini on Bloomberg Television’s “On The Move Asia.” (Source: Bloomberg - April 7)

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What Is Cloud Computing? (video)

What Is Cloud Computing?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Bloomberg will be tackling the big questions regarding Cloud Computing, such as the opportuntities for major tech companies, how big the market could grow and what it means for businesses, both big and small. But first, we asked the question: what exactly is it? Mia Saini reports. (Source: Bloomberg, April 7)

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Scott Guthrie to head Microsoft cloud business

Microsoft taps Scott Guthrie to head cloud business - CNET: "First, I am pleased to announce that after his two months as acting leader for the Cloud and Enterprise organization, I have promoted Scott Guthrie to Executive Vice President, where he will continue to lead and drive the organization. As you know, Scott has been a very public and passionate evangelist for many of our most important developer and infrastructure businesses. Since joining Microsoft in 1997, he has made critical contributions to .NET and other pivotal technologies that help power the Microsoft ecosystem today, and most recently has been the driver behind the unprecedented growth of Microsoft Azure. As a leader, Scott has shown incredible energy and insight into how we create technology that others can build on, and which can be built on what others have created. Please join me in congratulating Scott on his promotion!"--Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

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Tech Bubble, Cheap Services for Everyone

The Tech Bubble's Silver Lining: Cheap Services for Everyone - NYTimes.com: "Box is losing money. A lot of money. In documents it filed for its initial public offering, the cloud-storage firm disclosed this week that it took in $124 million in 2013, but spent $257 million. Its losses have grown substantially over the last two years because the vast majority of its 25 million users don’t pay anything for the company’s services. Box has hired an army of sales and marketing people in an effort to convert some of its free users into paying customers. Still, the company says it does not expect to turn a profit “for the foreseeable future.” There are two ways to think about Box’s finances. You could argue, as many have, that the losses are proof we’re in an incipient tech bubble. Box’s I.P.O. is one of the most anticipated tech offerings of the year; it is widely seen as a precursor to a raft of offerings by other start-ups selling cloud services, including Dropbox. But if investors go gaga over a company that’s losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, doesn’t it prove we’re back to where we were in the late 1990s, with soaring valuations for companies that don’t have a solid business future?..." (read more at link above)

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Google-Amazon Cloud Price Battle

Google Wins In Amazon Cloud Price Battle - InformationWeek: "Let's put this week's cloud price cuts in context. Cash-rich Google has made it harder for Amazon to profit on AWS. Whether or not Google steals a ton of AWS customers, Google wins. 8 Data Centers For Cloud's Toughest Jobs (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) In a remarkable display of the cloud's pricing dynamics, first Google, then Amazon Web Services announced severe price cuts to basic services this week. Prices of popular virtual servers plummeted 30%, and a new round of competition was initiated in cloud storage, with prices cut in half. Amazon didn't quite match the price cuts that Google made in entry-level storage, so it's lost the price leader's mantle there...."

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Google Reinvents Cloud Computing Pricing

Google Reinvents How Cloud Computing Is Priced | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: " . . .  at an event in San Francisco, the tech giant significantly reduced the prices attached to several of its cloud computing services, seeking an edge over Amazon, the world’s dominant cloud company. “This brings you industry leading pricing without the complexity you’re used to,” said Urs Hölzle, whooversees Google’s cloud services and its entire online infrastructure...." (read more at link above)

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Cisco and Partners, Largest Global Intercloud, Network of Clouds

Cisco and Partners to Build World's Largest Global Intercloud - MarketWatch: "...Cisco today announced plans to build the world's largest global Intercloud -- a network of clouds -- together with a set of partners. The Cisco global Intercloud is being architected for the Internet of Everything, with a distributed network and security architecture designed for high-value application workloads, real-time analytics, "near infinite" scalability and full compliance with local data sovereignty laws. The first-of-its-kind open Intercloud, which will feature APIs for rapid application development, will deliver a new enterprise-class portfolio of cloud IT services for businesses, service providers and resellers. Cisco expects to invest over $1 billion to build its expanded cloud business over the next two years. Its partner-centric business model, which enables partner capabilities and investments, is expected to generate a rapid acceleration of additional investment to drive the global scale and breadth of services that Cisco plans to deliver to its customers...."

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AWS to developers: scrub GitHub of secret keys

AWS urges developers to scrub GitHub of secret keys - Security - Technology: "Earlier this year, AWS contacted Rich Mogull, analyst and CEO of Securosis after three days of unusual activity on his account had run up US$500 in charges. In a blog post from January, Mogull said he had mistakenly published his AWS secret key on GitHub. "I did not completely scrub my code before posting to GitHub. I did not have billing alerts enabled ... This was a real mistake ... I paid the price for complacency," he admitted in his blog....Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/375785,aws-urges-developers-to-scrub-github-of-secret-keys.aspx#ixzz2wu5Jkuvo

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Google Plans to Overtake Amazon as King of the Cloud

Google's Bold Plan to Overthrow Amazon as King of the Cloud | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: "Urs Hölzle oversaw the creation of the world’s largest computer. It’s a machine that spans the globe — from The Dalles, Oregon to Hamina, Finland to Quilicura, Chile — and you use it every day. It’s called Google....this past January, Hölzle sent a thunderclap of a corporate memo across the company, laying out a new direction for both his team and the entire Google empire. In the months to come, he wrote, he and his team would be giving a little less attention to internal “customers” like Google Search and Gmail, so that they could concentrate on serving a new kind of customer outside the company. They were preparing a major expansion of the company’s cloud computing services — services that let outside businesses or software developers run their own software atop Google’s global infrastructure. “We will spend the majority of our development efforts on this New World,” wrote Hölzle. “Every developer will want to live in this world…and it’s our job to build it.”...." (read more at link above)

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HP Operations Overhaul, the Cloud

Nascent Payoff for H-P From Its Operations Overhaul - WSJ.com: "Among the changes: H-P has replaced its old sales and human-resources software with easier-to-use, Internet-based programs from Salesforce.com Inc., Workday Inc., and other cloud providers. It has re-engineered its sales force to make it easier to buy technology and services from H-P and its more than 150,000 distribution partners. And it has redesigned its website to recognize PC and mobile visits, as well as adding thousands of consumer products and more video. Over the next five years, H-P aims to quintuple revenue now generated by the site. H-P doesn't disclose precise figures but says its web sales now make up a few percentage points of its total revenue."

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Google, Amazon, a two-horse Cloud Race

Did Google just doom the lot of small-scale cloud providers? — Tech News and Analysis: "... the cloud market, at least in terms of who’ll have the most users, is really a two-horse race [AWS and Google]. It seems safe to assume Microsoft [Azure] will find a niche ... IBM Softlayer is doing some interesting things, especially around Watson as a service, and should be a strong revenue source for Big Blue. Rackspace ... it’s hard to see how it can continue with its current strategy. In this case, being in the middle is less a case of providing the best of both worlds, and more a case of being trapped in a nether region with no easy escape to either world...."

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