Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY) continues to delve outside its retail roots and add services anywhere it can. But, this latest venture is a bit baffling: backup services for your mobile phone?CloudComputing posts
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Google makes rain from the cloud
So-called "cloud computing" is the big-thing in Corporate America – that is, offloading information technology (IT) services to the web. It's a cost-saver since there is no need to buy infrastructure.
Some of the hot players in the space include salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) and NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N).
Well,there is another company getting traction: Google, Inc (Nasdaq: GOOG).
And, it should be no surprise. After all, Google has a global web infrastructure that has massive scale. Moreover, it has the technical capability to build mission-critical applications -- and yet they are easy to use.
Google's global computing 'cloud' set for amazing things?
It's hard to imagine Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as anything but a search engine for most consumers and even business leaders. The company that probably has more grand ambitions than any I can think of may want to tackle providing computing horsepower to needy customers in the future, though -- and in turn, become a service provider of sorts. This is on top of its ambition to become the largest advertising network the planet has ever seen.The scale of Google's global network and how it works technically would boggle the mind of many a Ph.D. It's those brainiacs who designed the sprawling network of Google's cheaper-by-the-dozen normal computer servers who are now trying to find more ways to utilize all that computing power outside of providing search results in a fraction of a second to billions of queries every month. As Google continues to build massive data centers, what is it going to do with all that power? Become Skynet, the infamous, world-dominating global computer network from the Terminator movies? Nah -- there are bigger business fish to fry.
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