Cloud computing, the next big boom in the world of IT, where traditional locally-installed software will be a thing of the past. Online managed services and software-as-a-service (saas) will make desktop applications obsolete, as efforts are already being made by a handful of giant corporate players that are investing in moving customers to the cloud.
Microsoft is offering online productivity services giving users the advantage of using Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote online – it’s what Microsoft calls “Office Web Apps”. Amazon Web Services (AWS) on the other hand is on a roll delivering processing power, data storage and IT infrastructure on the cloud. That allows businesses to deploy already established framework according to their tailored needs, saving effort, time, and money building it from scratch.
Google is the ultimate player in the Cloud Computing race. It offers an endless list of online services, making it the primary choice for businesses to fulfill their business productivity and communications needs. The problem is that Google has repeatedly turned its users down due to service outage. Gmail was out of service 4 times in 2009 alone, and that damages the credibility and the availability of online services. If the possibility exists for the availability of the cloud to disappear, then customers will be reluctant to establish ground on the cloud, because productivity and communications are critical to their business.
Cloud Computing provides many advantages to customers, but one of the biggest factors driving apprehension and impeding adoption is availability.
October 4, 2009 at 7:43 am |
You are right that Google is damaging the Cloud’s reputation for 4 times service outage of 2009 but 4 times or more is enough to learn that mistake.