Cloud Computing Blog

Is the principle of Cloud Computing new?

A question I am being asked at least once a week at the moment. Well certainly the phrase is new. However the technology and the application of the technology is not new. In fact it has been around for over 5 years.

Actually 100% of the FTSE 100 is running this technology in some form. Most of our service providers have been delivering applications for over 4 years.

What I would say is that bringing this technology together into purpose build multi-tenanted platform is quite new and the market is waking up to the idea of this being the new way to run IT systems.

Analysts are anticipating Cloud Computing to be the future of how businesses run IT and the amount of hosted desktop in business to be around 40% by 2013. Essentially we are talking about IT as a service and SMEs have the most to gain.