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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

According to a cloud survey in commissioned this year by one of the leading cloud platform providers, OnApp, the strongest uptake of cloud services by businesses is anticipated from web and application developers, with 67 per cent of cloud providers reporting this as the segment expected to drive the greatest growth.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. Application developers, no longer constrained by the massive administrative costs to set up servers, can solve previously impossible problems by seamlessly adding more hardware—except at the database layer.