Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Cloud Affects the Whole Ecosystem, and Then Some

"Cloud services...will touch every aspect of the software ecosystem, be it developers, vendors, buyers, users, service providers, and the channel," IDC says. That also means a shift to cloud-based computing is going to affect other ecosystems as well, particularly the communications ecosystem, since remote computing obviously increases the wide area communications and networking intensity of all computing applications.

"The cloud has moved from being on the periphery of both IT buyers and IT vendors to being a core issue for both parties," said David Bradshaw, IDC research manager. "IT buyers are looking for ways for cloud to increase agility while reducing cost, while many IT vendors, not least the software vendors, are scrambling to get their cloud offerings into the market before it is too late."

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