Clearly, working in the scenario successfully is the ‘fear factor’ as being noticed in the fast growing podium of cloud computing.

As per the recent quarterly reports as per the market research shows that Microsoft and IBM are the fastest companies in the area of cloud computing business and are fast evolving giants. In fact, their business tend to be at a danger level from shift to computing delivered over the internet area from far-flung data centers, as the business is in the form of a pay-for-use service rather than acting as a product.

Around the second quarter, Microsoft’s cloud revenue scored as high up to 164 percent where as IBB’s surged to around 86 percent as per the report made by the Synergy Research Group in the last week. Amazing is quite ahead and its revenue in the area of cloud computing rises to around$962 million when compared to Microsoft’s $370 million and IBM’s $259 million, an estimate made by Synergy. Amazon’s growth rate at around 49 percent was a bit ahead very slightly of the torrid 45 percent rate.

This progression rate by IBM and Microsoft was also highlighted in the quarterly financial reports of the company and conference calls with eminent researchers and analysts. The analyst at Synergy, John Dinsdale stated that these are not mere claims but come with many backups together with loads of investments.

A technology research company by the name of Gartner supplied the so-called magic quadrant reports, is being very minutely followed by corporate customers and technology experts and suppliers. These reports consist of the strengths and difficulties that are faced by the two graphic plotting tech companies side by side. The niche players are placed towards the lower left area while the lead players or the players are positioned at the upper-right quadrant space.

As per the previous year’s reports posted by Gartner on the basic cloud services, IBM was placed in the area of niche players while in the year 2012 it did not even come close as a feasible participant or player. In the present year with the acquisition of SoftLayer, which was a cloud start-up and its personal internal investments it has managed to rise to a slightly higher position towards the right even though it is not in the leaders area. Nonetheless, this is a strong vision as per Gartner, yet it lags a bit in the execution area.
Microsoft has managed to move towards the right area this very year, paving its way into the leader’s space. Last year it placed Microsoft in the very same position where IBM stands today.

global cloud computing industry

Have you ever wondered how much worth the cloud computing industry was in 2008 and how much it is worth today? Since the time it got introduced to the global market, cloud computing has seen an exceptional growth through out the world. Today in 2014 cloud computing has become an important part of modern businesses, providing wide range of benefits and progression right from it’s initial stage to the largely spread adoption we see today. In 2008, the global cloud computing industry has been estimated worth $46 billion and it is assumed to worth more than $150 billion by the end of 2014.

As per a recent survey completed by forbes, Forbes magazine shows that almost three quarter’s of businesses use some form of cloud computing platform,whether that is for storing photos, emails, music streaming or address  books and calendars. In this survey mostly used cloud computing platforms were Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Generally most of the companies uses four cloud services. 86% of  companies use more than one type of cloud 6 services.

Studies indicate that more than 50% of all information technology will be in the cloud in near future i.e. within the next five to ten years cloud computing will be the choice of every company. Hybrid  clouds are expected to represent 43% of the market in the next five years – even higher than both public and private. It is expected that By 2016 the Asia-Pacific market can account for up to 1.5 Zb of global cloud computing usage. This will make it the market with highest number of users worldwide.  By comparison, the second highest users will be represented by North America which will account for 1.1Zb. A Zb is a Zettabytes, which is equivalent to one billion terabytes.

With so much buzz about cloud computing, we need to know what is actually stored on the cloud today? As per a survey conducted by Endurance International Group, the following type of data is most often stored on the cloud:

• 43% Notes and Research
• 43% Music
• 44% Address Book
• 48% Calendars
• 66% Business Docs
• 70% Email
• 75% Photographs

Thus, in order to benefit effectively from increasing power and capabilities of cloud computing we need fast and more reliable Internet connections.