Karmona Pragmatic Blog » Cloud http://blog.karmona.com Pragmatic Software Management, Internet Trends, Life and more... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:40:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Head in the Clouds http://blog.karmona.com/index.php/2009/01/29/head-in-the-clouds/ http://blog.karmona.com/index.php/2009/01/29/head-in-the-clouds/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:37:51 +0000 Moti Karmona | מוטי קרמונה http://blog.karmona.com/?p=411 La Condition Humaine | Rene Magritte, 1933It seems like everywhere I go these days, people are talking about cloud computing… Would it be accurate to say that almost everyone are “fairly optimistic” regarding Cloud Computing?

For your convenient, I have collected few cloud-buzz-quotes to  spice your cloud computing elevator pitch:

  • According to Gartner: “Cloud computing heralds an evolution of business that is no less influential than e-business”
  • IDC on Cloud Computing: “This is about the IT industry’s new model for the next 20 years“, Vernon Turner, head of enterprise infrastructure, consumer and telecoms research.

Cloud Computing The Latest Evolution of Hosting | Forrester Research

  • Merrill Lynch estimates that by 2012, the annual global market for cloud computing will surge to $95 billion and that 12% of the worldwide software market would go to the cloud in that period.
  • In January of 2008 Amazon announced that the Amazon Web Services now consume more bandwidth than do the entire global network of Amazon.com retail sites…

Amazon Web Services Bandwidth

  • “… the new computing cloud age” Eric Schmidt (April, 2008)

Do you happen to have more???

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