Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: July 2009
Product Code: R464-1337Description Cloud computing has now become part of the IT lexicon, but what is it, how is it relevant to the enterprise and who are the players? This report presents a quick introduction to cloud computing and offers some perspective for enterprises.
Table of Contents - Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- Cloud computing
- Cloud is as cloud does
- What is this cloud?
- Cloud = just-in-time IT
- Cloud computing charts new territory
- Toad of Toad Hall -“hurray for the shiny new thing!”
- Eeyore -“ho hum, seen it before, didn’t work last time and won’t work now”
- Chicken Little -“alarm, disaster is upon us!”
- The logic of cloud computing
- Advice to players
- Start in the right place
- Cloud is starting to be used by enterprises
- Start in areas of cloud affinity
- Typical uses
- Don’t smother the golden cloud goose
- Cloud computing virtualises vendors
- The cloud computing landscape
- Market scan
- A. Web service aggregator platforms
- B. Business process as a service (BPaS)
- C. Software as a service (SaaS)
- Office 2.0: office productivity/collaboration/web meetings
- Business applications/ERP
- Business intelligence
- IT service desk/service management
- D. Platform as a service (PaaS)
- The most commonly acknowledged examples include:
- Other examples include:
- E. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
- Computing as a service
- Data storage as a service
- Cloud infrastructure building blocks (to enable public or private clouds)
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Cloud computing examples (on-demand, pay as you go)
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Cloud computing affinity framework
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