Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/99mr8h/global_cloud_com) has announced the addition of the "Global - Cloud Computing Insights" report to their offering.

Cloud computing remains a hot topic in the ICT industry, and BuddeComm fully agrees with the view that it has a great future.

However it will still be a fairly long time before it becomes as commonplace as its advocates predict. Leading IT researchers are talking about the size of this market in the hundreds of billions of dollars; but the issue is more about timing than size - it may take a decade to fully develop, rather than the few years that some would have us believe.

The development of cloud computing takes the form of a business transition and company strategies and policies will need to be changed before its potential can be monetised by businesses. A key factor here is that organisations will have to lift ICT from the level of an infrastructure issue to that of a business opportunity. Cloud computing will need to be seen as a valuable business tool - one that will differentiate the company from others.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Synopsis

2. Changing the CIO function

3. What is cloud computing (CC) and what can it be used for?

4. Cloud Computing (CC) is about business transformation

5. Software as a service

6. Cloud Computing (CC) = big business

7. The IT complexity of cloud computing

- Legacy investments also blocking the move to the Cloud

- Cloud PaaS revenue expectations

8. Recent trends

- Cloud-gaming a hot trend

- Cloud brokerage and other business opportunities

- GFC slows down cloud computing developments

- Cloud services drive data center markets

- Mobile Cloud Computing

- Cloud Computing for media and entertainment sectors

9. Case study 1: Cloud Computing in China and Japan

- China

- Japan

10. Case study 2: Analysis of Telstra's cloud coup

11. Backgrounder information

- Cloud Computing generates huge interest

- Cloud Computing requires business strategies

- Cloud Computing in the trans-sector context

Table 1 - Top IT/Business benefits from cloud computing

Table 2 - Worldwide Platform as a Service (PaaS) revenue - 2011; 2012; 2015

Chart 1 - Worldwide Platform as a Service (PaaS) revenue - 2011; 2012; 2015

Exhibit 1 - Definition: Cloud computing

Exhibit 2 - Cloud Principles

Exhibit 3 - Microsoft's cloud computing business model

Exhibit 4 - Amazon Web Services

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