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Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013.
GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a look-in during a wide-ranging conversation about various ways in which the cloud is shifting consumer, small business, and enterprise attitudes and behaviours.
Have a listen, and let us know if you agree with our analysis and predictions for the coming year.
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I think most of the predictions are on target. It should be interesting to see how firms respond to outages throughout 2013. I would guess not shoring that up could really harm some of the larger public clouds going forward. Businesses are starting to realize that outages can hamper their customer relationships. It should also encourage more planning on the buyer’s part to make sure they have failsafes in place.