I’m very interested in the evolution of what we’re now calling cloud-based computing. When I track my own evolution through networking technologies, with a slant toward telecommunications, I can’t help but make a strong comparison to hosted services. We’ve seen hosted Centrex evolve to hosted VoIP solutions. Now we’re seeing the beginnings of hosted enterprise business applications moving more and more toward Communications Enhanced Business Processes (CEBP). I’d argue Salesforce.com is a strong example of that.
With phenomenal growth of Amazon’s S3 services and Google’s massive distributed computing engine, cloud-based computing services are starting to take on new meaning again. Beyond those two powerhouses, everywhere we turn we hear people talking about moving data into the cloud - more …
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