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Mature industries generally come to be dominated by a few big players, and the Internet is no exception. The big players define the environment and the platforms that everyone else has to deal with; resistance is generally futile, until the next era comes along, usually many years later.
On the heels of third quarter earnings announcements, the WSJ has a piece reflecting on how much of commercial Internet activity is dominated by five companies:
- Amazon (e-commerce, cloud services)
- Apple (mobile, music/TV services)
- Google/Alphabet (search, mobile, online video)
- Facebook (social networking)
- Microsoft (consumer/enterprise desktop platform, cloud services)
This dominance didn't occur overnight.
Not coincidentally, all five companies beat analysts' earnings estimates for Q3. Microsoft, dealing with the continued decline of PC software, managed to make up for it through the impressive growth of its Azure cloud business.
Business Insider has a related piece on Amazon's dominance of the cloud segment; Microsoft is in second place, IBM and Google are struggling to keep up, and everyone else is basically tied for last.
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday November 08 2015, @10:09AM
If you have proprietary, confidential, or classified data you CANNOT in good conscience store it in the cloud.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2015, @11:19AM
Why not simply encrypt it in the cloud? Decrypt on site.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday November 08 2015, @11:30AM
Who needs conscience these days, no matter if good or bad? It doesn't pay the mortgage, doesn't put food on the table, doesn't get you laid.
(grin)
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(Score: 2) by Gravis on Sunday November 08 2015, @11:48AM
i recall reading that the CIA basically had Amazon build a miniature AWS in a their own datacenter. so sure, you can... as long as you own the entire cloud and only you can connect to it. :)
(Score: 4, Informative) by linkdude64 on Sunday November 08 2015, @12:05PM
As it was wisely put, there is no such thing as the cloud, only somebody else's computer.
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday November 08 2015, @12:20PM
I don't think I know anybody like that [xkcd.com]
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