In an interview for a recent article in the New York Times, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO), drew a diagram of Cloud Computing.
Look at the diagram for yourself and let me now if you think that Microsoft "gets it".
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businesses aren't going to upload there critical and legal data to some one elses servers be it google or microsoft they will want control of it welcome to your business cloud MS has a solution its called SharePoint Server its already here anything it won't do or some other product won't do you can add in to your cloud it is merely the finalisation for many businesses of moving there business apps to the web and wrapping a cohesive access approach around them
ReplyDeleteJason,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your comment, but businesses are already keeping critical and legal data in the cloud. We see large and mid-size organizations using systems like Salesforce.com for tracking all sales activities and information, including pricing, proposals, competitive analysis, and contracts. SaaS solutions like eBid are helping the A/E/C verticle to better manage subcontractor qualification, bidding, selection, and contracts.
I question the long term value of Sharepoint given its infrastructure and licensing requirements. In the SMB market, most companies we see using Sharepoint are keeping simple Wikis, files, calendars, links, and lists. This is not much more than you can do with server directory tree and Outlook.
We see larger organizations creating applications on the Sharepoint platform. In many cases, they are building apps that already exist commercially at multiple price points.
While we've seem some truly advantageous implementations, most of the Sharepoint sites we've seen are a platform looking for a purpose.
From an infrastructure standpoint, giving global access to secure Sharepoint sites means VPNs and other security costs.
Cloud Computing can deliver the capabilities of Sharepoint without the infrastructure, much of the development, and additional administrative overhead.
From a strategic viewpoint, as security confidence grows, so too will adoption of cloud-based solutions.