According to some top financial analysts cloud computing will grow to be a $100 billion market. Regardless of whether the “cloud computing industry” will reach those levels or not is not knowable, but we do know it has captured the attention of some of the smartest people and largest IT companies on earth.

Back in 1985 while working for importers of some of the very first PC clones I recognized how hugely popular 5Mb, then 10Mb, and 20Mb hard disk drives were and how demand for them was hard to keep up with. So I did what any other red blooded American entrepreneur that didn’t know better would do… I quit my job and started a computer wholesale company to sell hard drives. The $6,000 in credit card cash advances was enough fuel to get things started and when I left my baby behind after 8 years we were shipping over $5 million a month worth of PC hardware.

Since that time nothing in the IT world has caught my attention like those incredible half height 30Mb RLL hard drives : ) did until now. Cloud computing makes a lot of sense to me. If a CEO can buy exactly the IT muscle his company requires on any given month with the flexibility to adjust at nearly the speed of light, why wouldn’t he or she? Cloud computing holds out that promise for companies. I’m a fan and I’m going to learn what I can about it the best way I know how… by reading and writing about it here at 3 Cloud Computing.

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David Coakley

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