Cloud Computing Perspectives

Cloud computing is slowly becoming ubiquitous and the cloud is simply the future of computing.

Actually, given the many and great options available like Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure and Google's Cloud now, the question is not how to build the computing infrastructure.

Actually, one of the great advantages of the cloud - the fact that firms can choose and pay as they go for cloud computing services is turning into one of its major drawbacks. If a corporation chooses all three major providers of cloud computing, namely Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure and Google's Cloud by selecting different services, the matter of running all that particular corporations' data and processes in one data lake or one processing platform can become a huge problem.

The problem with many technology companies is that every technology firm is trying to draw the corporation or consumer into its single walled garden ecosystem, so it can extract maximum revenue from a corporation or consumer. Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet are all striving for cloud monopoly or at the very least, if a firm uses their cloud, these technology giants seem to make it deliberately difficult to use the other technology firms' cloud simultaneously.

A firm, Hashi Corp is trying to solve this by using the strategy of providing a modular solution for cloud computing, where companies can cherry pick different cloud services by different providers and run the from one single internet site. But it easily transpires that Hashi Corp is also trying to become a monopoly power by creating one modular walled garden.

As Peter Thiel, the famous technologist and investor has stated: "Every business is striving for monopoly power".

Another young technology company, GitLab is providing the tools for the cloud having created an internet site for code repository, collaboration, team work, sharing ideas and ultimately creating quality software code to power the internet and cloud computing.

It is interesting that one of the bedrock ideas of technology is that it is/must be inclusive and in the same time technology companies proclaim they are the pinnacle of fair competition, but ultimately all tech players are playing and trying to win the age old game of "Monopoly".

This ambition for a monopoly is actually fostering competition in a strange way, because as soon as one big technology corporation gains a dominant market share, many new ambitious startup technology firms start eyeing and analysing the market, ultimately to see a huge opportunity. Information technology is the future as it saves corporations and ultimately people time, effort and money or in short information technology makes life better.

With a little help of the anti monopoly agencies of the governments world over, information technology will continue to thrive as an industry.

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