Given the huge market size predictions from Gartner, IDC and more, it is but natural that there are bound to be opportunities in cloud for entrepreneurs to come up with innovative solutions and address the market needs. In the final part of the interview, Sramana and Jose discuss entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud. Jose highlights the fact that Cloud computing is granting small- to medium-sized businesses access to the technological resources they need to compete with the big enterprises; therefore sparking some much needed innovation. By having the same access to data centers, server farms and software platforms, cloud computing is helping to create a fair playing field.
By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What are your thoughts about cloud security?
Final part of the interview with Fred van den Bosch – topics covered include Private Clouds, Entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud and some of the pioneering work happening in cloud space.
Fred discusses some of the interesting open entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud, in this part of the interview.
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: Yes, and what you just said applies also to small for-profit businesses. If you look at the numbers, in the United States there are about 28 million small businesses. About 22 million have no employees; these are mom-and-pop small businesses, and there are