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 This part of the discussion centers around the impact of clouds on the evolution of IT in a large organization such as Novell, the need to upgrade IT skills to make services more valuable to business, private clouds and data security in the cloud.
With 35% of ISVs adopting SaaS in terms of delivery and pricing models, there are significant cost savings that are seen by large enterprises. Jose compares the savings to outsourcing and quotes Merill Lynch which mentioned approximately 2-10 times cost savings with cloud based pricing schemes. Well, not all of the enterprise workloads can move into the clouds so this is only part of IT budget for a large enterprise.