Forbes Column 08: Deconstructing The Cloud
My new column Deconstructing The Cloud attempts to demystify the various nuances of cloud computing and offer you a framework, yet again.
If you want to play with equations, as we have done in Web 3.0 and Enterprise 3.0, we could say:
Cloud Computing
= (SaaS + PaaS + IaaS + DaaS+ SaaS-enabled-BPO)
= ((S+P+I+D)aaS + SaaS-enabled-BPO)
It’s a bit clumsy, I must admit, and doesn’t have the elegance of my Web 3.0 formula. But I thought I’d let you play with it anyway!
This segment is a part in the series : Forbes Column 08
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[...] iForem has 30 customers, with the number of content organizer users growing monthly at the rate of 125%. The company did not provide the names of its customers or provide any revenue information. However, iForem did quote the Gartner Group’s 2005 estimates of $6.5 billion for master data management (MDM) and $250 million for software escrow (SE) to give an idea of the software/IP escrow market size. However, Gartner’s MDM estimate includes products that large enterprise software companies like SAP and Oracle sell, to organize master data inside of large corporations. Thus, I don’t think MDM is the right category to bucket iForem under. In fact, from a positioning point of view, the best category for the company would be Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). [...]
[...] iForem has 30 customers, with the number of content organizer users growing monthly at the rate of 125%. The company did not provide the names of its customers or provide any revenue information. However, iForem did quote the Gartner Group’s 2005 estimates of $6.5 billion for master data management (MDM) and $250 million for software escrow (SE) to give an idea of the software/IP escrow market size. However, Gartner’s MDM estimate includes products that large enterprise software companies like SAP and Oracle sell, to organize master data inside of large corporations. Thus, I don’t think MDM is the right category to bucket iForem under. In fact, from a positioning point of view, the best category for the company would be Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). [...]