The PaaS market is quickly becoming a center point for the fast growing cloud sector.
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While there has been modest growth of IT jobs, cloud-sector jobs are increasing far more swiftly, the report states.
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At least today, even the cloud computer sector sells under 30 times next year's earning power or one time its growth rate.
Triggered by a warning Tuesday after the close from Equinix, the entire cloud computing sector sold off hard, trapping greedy longs that had chased overvalued stocks higher.
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Still, the points raised in the MeriTalk study also provide a case for cloud within the private sector as well.
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His statements may be surprising, but they echo an ongoing transition in public-sector thinking about cloud computing.
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Looking at public sector investment in cloud technology, for example, a global survey released last year by KPMG International found that government organizations still lagged behind the private sector.
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Just as employees in the private sector have embraced consumer cloud services and developed a habit of bringing their own devices to work, so have state employees.
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In the government sector, then, the cloud is seen as a promising way to stretch those dwindling budgetary allotments.
These cloud brokers are initially in the private sector right now, but Budhraja predicts the formation of government-based brokers as well.
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From GPS systems to vehicle tracking, cloud computing will allow businesses in the automotive sector to deliver better experiences and offer more to the end customers.
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There are particular reasons to think that Lilly will win here, lifting some of the cloud of unpredictability from the whole of the drug sector.
The banks have been lagging this market for months as the dark cloud of regulatory reform has been hanging ominously over the sector.
"The 16 January kidnapping and murder of foreign oil workers at the In Amenas gas field has cast a dark cloud over the outlook for the country's energy sector, " it said.
One sign that the cloud-computing trend is for real: the Web-hosting sector is suddenly awash in acquisition talk, real and theoretical.
The EY report adds that cloud and SaaS additions comprised 40 percent of the volume for the non-tech sector.
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In the meantime Meraki will help Cisco compete more effectively in areas such as Wi-Fi equipment and cloud-based LAN solutions where a company such as Aruba Networks is considered the gold standard within the sector.
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The WEF Open Cloud Initiative is observing projects like ULAP and refining their approach to advocacy and fundraising as governments and the private sector make their priorities known.
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