A recent Zinnov study estimates the global cloud computing market
to be over USD 70 billion by 2015. The study also pointed out that
India, with its powerful ecosystem of over 1300 independent
software vendors (ISVs), 1.4 million developers and more than
11000 system integrators (SIs and Custom software development
organizations), is ideally poised to address this growing
opportunity.
In this emerging market which is said to become a global hub for
cloud computing technologies, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a
keynote at IndiMix 2010, highlighted the impact that the cloud will
create.
Here are some excerpts from his keynote:
- The cloud is the direction in which we are evolving every
product of ours – Office, Windows Server, SQL Server and
SharePoint
- The cloud is the fusion of the best of the Internet with
the best of the Enterprise Data Center with the best of the PC,
with the best of the phone and the TV. Today, these different
entities are loosely linked through the browser. We are trying to
make these links stronger
- The cloud creates new opportunities and responsibilities. As an
application developer, you can distribute and deploy globally in
multiple locations with full latency, and equipped with ready
billing and commercial infrastructure. But the cloud also creates a
new set of responsibilities. These responsibilities include
privacy, security and reliability
- The cloud will change the way you look at hardware.
Today, you write applications designed for servers keeping in mind
the deployment environment. In the cloud era, you will write
applications that are designed to scale and have the capability to
be deployed immediately. The cloud will make hardware that does not
look like a server, but a data center that comes in a box and has
processors, storage and networking integrated with each other.
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