BANGALORE, INDIA: Presenting the top five trends in cloud computing, from Narasimha Rao, Country Manager, Akamai, India.

1) Is Cloud Computing "Too Cloudy" for the Enterprise?

Cloud computing has gained significant traction as a concept but not a reality in the enterprise. In reality, few enterprises or upcoming cloud computing offerings will build their own cloud due to TCO Yet cloud computing for SaaS and application delivery has been around for years.

For example, when SaaS providers became mainstream, they needed Akamai's massively distributed edge network to deliver their applications over the global cloud. As the concept of delivering cloud computing matures, cloud computing vendors will look to Akamai to deliver their offerings. What are the issues, challenges and technologies needed to make cloud computing a reality and how does application acceleration fit into that discussion?

Akamai has the massively distributed edge network, the cloud, to deliver cloud computing to the enterprise.
 
2) Hey You, Get Off My Cloud!

With so many companies jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, how is a potential buyer supposed to sort through the noise? If you listened to the industry buzz, it would appear that any and every company has the ability to support cloud computing.

In reality, only a few companies have the ability to build and support a cloud computing infrastructure. But the idea of centralizing computing resources in a cloud outside of the enterprise data center is still appealing. With more than 30,000 servers,

Akamai is among the few that can support a cloud computing environment. Akamai provides the cloud for the delivery of SaaS and application acceleration, today, and will be leveraged for by cloud computing vendors as they emerge.