How Big Is the World of Cloud Computing? [Infographic]

How Big is the World of Cloud Computing? [Infographic]

How Big is the World of Cloud Computing? [Infographic] by, Stuart Miniman

April 28th, 2011

As part of Wikibon’s continuing series of Infographics on Cloud Computing, this time we look at some of the differences between large enterprise and cloud data centers. We have shown you some of the world’s largest data centers – scale is one differentiator and another is the architectural implementation. In a recent photo tour of Facebook’s data center, Robert Scoble showed that a Facebook’s cloud is optimized for power, cooling and streamlined with homogeneous deployments of infrastructure. Cloud Service Providers are a hot topic – as evident by recent acquisitions of Terremark by Verizon for $1.4B and Savvis for $2.5B by CenturyLink (Qwest). Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace and others are building massive data centers that are 6-7X more cost effective at scale. With economics like this, it’s no surprise that Amazon Web Services is tracking toward $1B in revenue and the overall cloud services market is expected to reach nearly $50B by mid decade.

Stuart Miniman is an active member of the networking (Ethernet and SAN), virtualization (vExpert 2011-2015) and cloud communities. Stu (even Biz Stone agreed that @stu is a great Twitter handle) is a proponent of linking information and people in IT by leveraging the latest tools and processes from the innovation and social media communities. In past positions, including sales, product management and strategic planning, he has focused on the needs of customers by working with partners to deliver the solutions or information that the customers require. Stuart worked at EMC for 10 years; with a primary focus on storage networking and virtualization technologies. He also worked with voice/video/data solutions at Lucent Technologies (now Avaya) and power solutions at American Power Conversion. He has spoken at many industry conferences and writes for his own blog. Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University.

Stuart Miniman

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