Just when cloud computing might have seemed likea welcome solution to disaster recovery planning in Japan, Amazon suffered a major outage that affected hundreds of customers.
Within justa few years, companies began switching from hardware to cloud services because they were attracted to benefits likea reduction in capital costs as well as an easing in IT staffing issues.
Maybe I'd likea billion for three seconds, or 10 billion, just the way I might need a million computers in the cloud for two seconds and can access them through Google.
If we imagine that this scenario will spread to other applications that run on traditional PCs, the future looks much more likejusta screen that could receive and display data coming from the Cloud.
By passing on its savings to customers, it aims to capture a dominant market share even in the cloud Office market, justlike it does in the desktop productivity software market.