Cloud computing has arrived and it is big business. Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) sells virtual computing that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Meaning: it allows to transform a desktop into a virtual computer.
Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.Is there any Israeli start-up in this field?
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Somebody has bothered to make a nice list of them for you.
http://www.export.gov.il/NewsHTML/SoftwareChallenges.pdf
I'm familiar with the VP of R&D of GigaSpaces, who is a PHD at Tel Aviv University. What they do sounds pretty interesting.
I think cloud computing is the dumbest thing I ever heard. The whole PC revolution was to get computing on your desk, in your control. I used a time sharing computer terminal back in the mid-70s - cloud computing takes us full circle back to the bad old days. Cloud computing - cloud server has problems, you are out of luck. Internet connection down, you are out of luck, etc. With a self contained PC you are the master of your own fate. I might use the cloud as a backup but never for primary functions.
"Outsourcing" in general always sucks. The middleman adds a layer of cost because he has to make a profit. Either he will charge you more than it would to do this yourself in house or else he will cheat you on the quality. There's no other way he can stay in business.
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Things change, but they also stay the same. Instead of time sharing terminals, nowadays we have cheap laptops. They can't really run any truly intensive tasks. Why not give them a powerful remote server to run on?
Even Remote Desktop or VNC is a very basic form of "cloud computing".
It seems to me that one can make money out of cloud computing only from the banks and financial instituitions. They would already have their own IT facilities to take of data mining and similar stupidities. The university people would prefer to roll out their own, the same for large public instituitions like libraries and hospitals. I wonder where the business is coming from.
Thanks IHTG. I was unaware of this area. Yet it seems uninvestable at this time.
I've used a Citrix workstation, and in many ways they are a return to the era of terminals connected to a mainframe. If I remember correctly the new terminals are now called "thin clients" and instead of connecting to a single mainframe they connect to a cloud made of servers which appear to the thin client as a single server.
All of this is pointless for me to mention since IHTG just pointed it out in a more general form.
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