Comments on: Cloud services and the new platform wars

By: scottph

scottph — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:13:35 +0000

That might be, but even if it’s the case it doesn’t water down my argument.

By: LOLlypop

LOLlypop — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:58:13 +0000

LOL – all indications are that Apple is backing iCloud with Azure or Amazon S3 (or both)!

By: d

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:55:39 +0000

Already a lot of business service providers operate in the cloud. I imagine enterprises will move more of their apps there as well, but obviously the more sensitive stuff will stay in-house for a while.

By: Gavin Hill

Gavin Hill — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:44:56 +0000

There will not be a one size fits all, nor do I see large organizations moving all of their Apps into the Cloud for numerous reasons that have already been mentioned. At the rate at which Cloud computing adoption is growing, I think we are going to see more vendors driving down the costs, and fast commoditizing the space. The big challenge is in securing your data regardless of where it is.

By: scottph

scottph — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:03:04 +0000

All tru in consumer facing apps, but most companies that handle sensitive data won’t be moving to any of these services anytime soon, and not just because of legal implications for banks, insurances, etc.
Also, the services mentioned above are used predominantely by dot com start-ups or organizations that don’t have sensitive data.
They all fail at a very important task too: Keeping your personal documents, pics, etc. – your whole digital life – synced on all of your devices. That’s where iCloud excels, which wasn’t entioned, even though they have 100+ million users.
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By: Asher Bond

Asher Bond — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:41:31 +0000

Systems in operation instantiated by platform-services… that’s the new middleware. You know you wish you were in the middle. The margins are in support. – @AsherBond