What specific developments will shape the cloud itself? Based on my primary research, executive interviews and close monitoring of vendor developments during 2010, I predict five major trends will shape the cloud space during the coming year.
M.R. Rangaswami of Sand Hill Group believes 2011 will be another exciting year for enterprise software innovation. Here are the ten focal points that will drive software vendors to develop products, better address customer needs and rev their business models in the coming year.
Cloud computing promises to be a broadly disruptive technology wave, changing the way companies relate to their customers. As it matures over the next few years, unease with the term cloud computing will disappear, and this disruption will become known as the cloud revolution.
In this article, Marc Benioff, the Chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, reveals the details of how he built a $1 billion in revenue business and spawned an industry in his recent book, Behind the Cloud.