Q&A: Reza Malekzadeh, vice president of marketing at Nimbula

published 12 October 2010

I think it is not going to be black and white.

I have a hard time imagining three big providers that are all completely secluded from each other because I don't think customers want to go that way. I think, at the same time, customers have seen true value coming out of shared infrastructure.

I have the feeling that it is going to be a mix where you can have a lot of commodity applications that you can run on [the public cloud], which doesn't provide you with SLAs and makes it easy to fire off things. But, maybe there will be a number of smaller niche players that will address, say, the legal market because lawyers for example have a specific type of data privacy issue and those guys will build a slightly different service for that particular market.

I can see a nice mix but I definitely think that the idea of using your own and someone else's equipment is something that will prevail in the long term because it just makes economic sense.

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