5 ALTERNATIVE CLOUD PLATFORMS
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Henry David Thoreau in a letter, 2 March 1842
Alongside the main public cloud providers are a raft of others. Some of these providers have tried to offer (indeed, some still are offering) their own proprietary cloud technology. However, the majority have decided to use a core platform of a more standardised technology, with additional functionality and capabilities as they see fit.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CLOUD OFFERINGS
If you think about the market that we’re in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that’s happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Aaron ...
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