Not exact matches
Dell said leading software as a
service companies are starting to realize the
public cloud is too expensive, which has led companies
like Dropbox to pull out.
Clearly EMC,
like every other IT incumbent, has one nervous eye on Amazon Web
Services, the
public cloud giant that became a huge success largely because software developers saw it as a cheap, easy way to get the resources they need to build and test their products.
That's important to remember, because while many corporate applications are moving to a
public cloud like Amazon (amzn) Web
Services or Microsoft (msft) Azure, we are still early in the
cloud era and many businesses still want to control their own infrastructure for some jobs.
A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web
Services in
public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider
like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.
A
public cloud like Amazon Web
Services or Microsoft Azure comprises a massive set of computer servers, storage, and networking gear, which are rented out to businesses that don't want to expand or run their own data centers.
That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a
public cloud provider
like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web
Services.
In a nutshell the Photon Enterprise
Cloud is
like our well established
public Photon
Cloud and adds the following features: Runs on dedicated servers, provides guaranteed
service levels (SLAs) and high priority support.
Viivo secures
public cloud storage
services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive and OneDrive so lawyers can securely access their files on any device.
In the future, you will see a Chrome extension wallet, a Bitcoin - 101 email course, a new onboarding app, a new charts page for those who
like bitcoin statistics, and our new
cloud mining
service on pool.bitcoin.com will soon be open to the
public.