subject: Who Can Be The Number Two Of Cloud Computing? [print this page] Now, Amazon should be regarded as the biggest cloud service website, this conclusion has also been supported by third-party data. Like most of the website provides cloud services, Amazon did not disclose any information related to existing or new data center.
Accenture analyst Liu Huan (phonetic) expects Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (referred to as the "Amazon EC2) to manage up to 450,000 servers; site service income is said to have up to one billion U.S. dollars Amazon no doubt have to sit tight cloud computing first chair, the following seven competitors with fierce competition in the next few years.
1. Rackspace
Rackspace is a global leader in hosting services provider, is also a major cloud service providers. Gartner analyst Lydia Leong said that income and VMs (virtual host) criteria, Rackspace cloud computing number two has to sit tight. Data Rackspace public cloud services revenue increased from one hundred million U.S. dollars in 2010 rose to 189 million in 2011. Looking to the future, Rackspace if you want to continue to achieve revenue growth up, also need to invest more online Openstack software.
2. Google
To measure the actual number of servers has Google considered to be the largest cloud service providers. Google site revenue is difficult to estimate exactly how much, but certainly, it is one of a handful of investment to compete with Amazon in cloud computing; plus it has many Apps and Gmail storage, Google has with strong competitiveness. PaaS (Platform as a Service) can not become a major factor in promoting the development of the company.
3. Microsoft
Microsoft's cloud computing operating system platform Azure has great potential, but the actual effect of temporarily unknown - certainly, however, that this product will be welcomed by the general public. Not long ago, Microsoft released in Israel a primary Azure-based acceleration device; Next week Microsoft will release first applied to Azure ERP system, which is one of several of Microsoft's flagship software.
4. IBM
Developed by IBM SmartCloud application has more than a cloud storage experts, according to statistics, the AWS and Rackspace. I was surprised, but it seems reasonable thing-IBM large scale and rich resources convincing.
5. Hewlett-Packard
HP already joined the cloud plan a few years ago promised Azure-based compiler now also widely used. HP Cloud Services executives Zorawar accepted an interview with The New York Times last week, Hewlett-Packard's cloud service with more features than AWS, a greater capacity. He also said that in the field of cloud computing development, HP will fully be happy to competing with Amazon. Despite the recent HP's stock has been falling, but it still is a strong competitor, cloud services priority projects focus on the development of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
6. VMWares
VMWares software also has a large number of cloud computing services for third-party suppliers, the company's Cloud Foundry service platform also received a lot of attention. VIA also help GenieNRM running for the parent company EMC Mozy cloud storage in the cloud to gain a firm foothold in the competition in the service sector.
7. Facebook
Facebook spent a lot of time and effort in creating a data center, which is nothing ridiculous. It past experience into open computing projects, so that the use of open resources for hardware design. Facebook has been more than eight hundred million users, but it's just a little knowledge of fur cloud facilities. Indeed, Facebook is temporarily unable to provide cloud services, but Amazon only sold books in the past only. Facebook may also involve more areas, as GigaOM's Derrick said, it will probably be your next software vendor.
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Greystone Solutions (a consulting firm in Boston) chairman, Robert said: "I wanted to compete with Amazon, you need to have three qualities - a significant capital investment, strong technical management capabilities and maintaining software updates. Google and Microsoft not only capital investment, technical support, no problem. to both shackles of their core business. Facebook to find a new development project, perhaps it will be the dark horse in this competition. before by the antitrust lawsuit, Amazon will continue to maintain the current momentum of development. "
The seven companies should be the number two candidates for cloud computing, there may even will replace Amazon boarded first throne. Do not know which competitors have missed it?
