Mar 01 2009
IBM and Juniper Enter the Clouds
It seems that it is impossible to read a technology news web site these days without reading at least one cloud computing article! I still remain sceptical that cloud computing will be the saviour that it is being hyped-up to be! However, I do think that it will have a number of business areas where it will succeed.
I read an interesting article earlier this month about a partnership between IBM and Juniper that is intended to bring them both into the cloud computing market. Strategically I think that this partnership makes sense, and both companies will bring significant expertise to it. So it will be interesting to see what they do next!
Perhaps the most interesting statement in the article was:
With cloud computing possibly representing a $42 billion market by 2012, …
I love these types of market value estimations, because they seem to be as accurate as lottery predictions!
The full article is IBM And Juniper Networks Hoping To Gain Cloud Computing Market Share.
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