Peaches Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Analysts expect the cloud computing field to grow rapidly over the coming years as companies look to slash costs by outsourcing costly data center operations. By Reuters InformationWeek June 2, 2009 11:58 PM BOSTON - "Tibco Software Inc will sell products to help companies build and run programs on Amazon.com's cloud computing system, a move that may spur adoption of the fledgling technology.Tibco Executive Vice President Ram Menon said in an interview Tuesday that his company will start customer trials of the software at the end of this month and expects to begin selling it by the end of this year or in early 2010.Amazon is a pioneer in the fledgling field of cloud computing, which is the hosting of services and data on remote computers that are accessed over the Web. Companies have been slow to adopt the technology because it is difficult to write and manage programs for Amazon's service.Google Inc and Salesforce.com Inc compete with Amazon in the small but rapidly growing field of providing storage and computing via the cloud. Tech heavyweights IBM and Microsoft Corp are getting ready to launch similar services."full story at IWeek - http://www.informationweek.com/news/servic...cleID=217701390 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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