IBM vs Google in the Cloud
This week, IBM launched iNotes, a cloud-based email solution for businesses that don’t want to run their own email servers. This puts them in direct competition for corporate cloud customers with Google’s email application GMail and its Apps suite of software for businesses.
IBM’s offering is slightly less expensive than Google’s ($36 vs $50/year/user), but Google’s suite of applications offers 25 times more storage.
Google has a head start in gaining users and a lot of clout in the cloud-competing arena. However, IBM has many business connections that started many years before Google was even around.
What do you think? Will new media expertise or old guard connections be the determining factor in who comes out ahead in the cloud computing game?
(via Startribune.com)
