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Over this past quarter, the cloud computing industry reached a historic milestone: $100 billion . The top publicly listed cloud companies now have a combined $100 billion in market capitalization with an estimated $12.5 billion in 2013 revenue. In just over a decade, the cloud industry has expanded into a dynamic multi-dimensional landscape, evolving from rudimentary cloud applications into sophisticated and diverse product offerings. And while it’s important to champion the success and recent widespread va
I. Cloudy Beginnings
The launch of today’s multifaceted cloud industry is rooted in humble yet revolutionary beginnings: storing and accessing information via the internet. In less than two decades the number of people worldwide with internet access has grown from 16M in 1995 to 2.8B today . Spawning from this essential tenant of accessing business information from the web, a new and emerging constellation of applications has continued to evolve and mature. And as this emerging constellation of applications solidifies itself ar