Published via Inbox: 2013-05-07 23:44:13
Shhhhh, it looks like cloud computing is not immune from industry consolidation and Amazon Web Services gets testy about private cloud adoption.
There’s a paradox in the cloud vendor community. All the players agree there is tons of demand for cloud and cloud services — at least for their cloud and their cloud services. The future is bright, the upside enormous. But when pressed, many also say that we’re due for lots of consolidation — that there really isn’t market demand for umpteen different cloud flavors and the vendors that sell them. In short demand is great for my cloud, but not nearly enough for all these other guys’ clouds.
My Two Cents
Enterprise Cloud is exploding and generally there is more than enough business to go around to all of the cloud big and little players. But Ms. Darrow is right � how many different Cloud OS platforms do we need? VMware, OpenStack, CloudStack, AWS's proprietary platform, Eucalyptus, Joyent, and that's just the Cloud OS layer. Chef vs. Puppet and others for the DevOps layer? IaaS, PaaS and even the SaaS layer? Public Cloud vs. Private Clouds vs. Hybrid clouds? So many other niche or deep vertical markets as well. In short, isn't this the way it's supposed to be in an exciting and burgeoning new field like cloud computing... When faced with a big opportunity like Cloud right here and now, we are supposed to win and win big because there is only a limited window of opportunity to win the newly created real estate. Some win, some lose. Some close their doors and that's nature at work.
