First internal clouds likely to fail, Forrester says 10 cloud computing predictions for 2011
Network World, Jon Brodie
There are also numerous software vendors offering automation tools to virtualize infrastructure and provide cloud-like capabilities -- for example, VMware, Red Hat, Platform Computing and the startup Nimbula founded by the team that built Amazon EC2.
For those not wanting to build a new internal infrastructure, Amazon, Terremark, Savvis, Rackspace and others offer hosted virtual servers. A Forrester survey of 1,252 server and storage IT decision makers in the third quarter of 2010 found that 15% are planning to purchase infrastructure-as-a-service resources from Amazon or other vendors, and another 6% have already done so.
