But Bryan Byun, general manager of cloud applications at Palo Alto, Calif.-based software company VMWare (VMW), says there’s something to the concept, at least for enterprises. “For a large company, we do see this as being different,” he said on May 25, where he, Stevens and other software executives convened for the Morgan Stanley Cloud Computing Symposium.
Software companies, which have focused most of their cloud computing efforts on public applications such as messaging and media, see increasing opportunity in the corporate world. “You may be more familiar with [Akamai] in the media and entertainment spaces, but you should become increasingly familiar with us in the commerce, the retail, the enterprise business-to-business portal,” said Chris Schoettle, executive vice president for products at Akamai Technologies (AKAM), the Cambridge, Mass.-based Internet infrastructure company that serves customers such as Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes.
For now, though, big companies are going to spend a lot of money building their own private clouds because the comfort level with public clouds isn’t high enough.
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