Friday, 14 June 2013

Cloud Service Providers Carving Out A Niche

By Liliana Mills


The World Wide Web has long been a fertile playground for all sorts of start ups and secure companies alike. All sorts of companies would use it to carve out a niche for themselves and survive in the business world because of it. Cloud service providers started out the same way but they would eventually grow beyond what could be considered a niche market.

There are a great many web based companies that are small enough to keep expenses on the low end, but large enough to at least make a profit to stay afloat. Places like this have been around for a very long time on the Internet. There are companies that start out this way and eventually grow well beyond that category. These are the companies that are considered a huge success.

When the cloud made its debut people looked upon it as a new technology or service. In all actuality it has been around for a very long time. It was just not called the cloud because somewhere someone had a great marketing idea. This happens from time to time in our society. People take something that has been around or something that is a common commodity and give it a name.

The name that is chosen for the product or item has as much to do with the success of the product than anything else. In this case the name was a perfect fit because it gives the impression of the service being in "thin air" and available anywhere. It was a marvelous idea that worked well then and continues to work to this day.

When someone got the marvelous idea to take this already present storage model and expand it away from its hosting roots they hit a goldmine. Giving it a name like the cloud gave people a way to recognize it as its own entity and it was off and running. Various companies and webmasters found a use for the space right away.

As more and more sites started to use such places, other services started to do the same. Pretty soon you had providers everywhere and almost everybody was using them. Even people who really had no need for vast amounts of space now had it available to them. They figured why not if it is free, because someday it might come in handy.

They no longer had a need to carry software or files with them in bulky drives or in a lot of smaller portable ones. They could just upload their data to the cloud and walk away. When they arrived at their new location or when someone else needed what they had, they only needed to log in to the site and download their files.

Making it simple, easy, and free was a business model that always works. Especially if the product you have is valuable. Cloud service providers had that model and they have value so it was easy to see that it would be a success, and it was. Today they are plentiful and the options available are many. Great enough to fit anyone's needs.




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