Scott Young

Cloud Computing - a topic that has been steadily growing in popularity and interest in the IT industry over the past decade - has the potential to significantly change how IT works by offering ready access to new capabilities, less expensive IT resources and unrivaled flexibility for businesses. Enterprises have typically viewed Cloud Computing as a service delivery trend that applies primarily to small-to-medium businesses. But with large vendors like IBM, Dell, Microsoft, and Google adopting positions on Cloud Computing that view appears to be changing and will continue to change as larger enterprises gain a better understanding of how to match software and service delivery models to particular types of users. Google and Microsoft provide good examples of Cloud-based services. Google is a leader in the Cloud Computing space and its Gmail and Apps provide well-kno... (more)