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Feature Article ..

Google, Others Pose SME Hosting Prospects 

By Rawlson O'Neil King, theWHIR.com 

August 18, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A round of new, heightened 
competition will emerge if Google ever 

begins to provide Web or application hosting to entry-level consumers. The combination 
of its popular existing services 

and mass-market dominance would ensure its emergence as a powerful new player in the 
SME hosting sector. 

Google's already-massive backing infrastructure, if combined with its powerful 
contextual advertising technology, could 

provide a legitimate model for a free hosting solution with the potential to generate 
countless page views and 

tremendous revenue. 

In establishing such a service, Google would follow in the footsteps of Yahoo! and 
eBay who already provide e-business 

services to the mass market. Yahoo! has for years provided Web hosting and 
construction tools to small business. And, in 

order to augment its online auctioning service, eBay currently provides businesses 
with the tools to establish e-stores, 

in which to showcase their merchandise. 

The deployment of such online services targeted at the SME segment would allow for the 
organic growth of consumer usage 

and revenue. New modes of revenue will become important, as investors demand more 
strategies from new economy entrants 

like Google, to augment their earnings. 

Research firm IDC believes that some of these new players have the potential to 
challenge the traditional set of IT 

services companies, such as IBM and EDS, which are currently pursuing the delivery 
model known as utility computing. 

Utility, or on-demand, computing can be defined as an enterprise-level computing model 
in which the technology and 

computing resources are allocated to an organization and its individual users on an 
as-needed basis. Computing resources 

such as CPU cycles, bandwidth availability, storage and applications can be channeled 
to users based on the tasks they 

perform at specified times. 

"The combination of newer players and the disruptive nature of utility computing could 
radically alter not only the 

landscape of current players known for provisioning IT â and even communications â 
services, but also the ecosystem of 

players and the fundamental process of provisioning such services," said David Tapper, 
IDC research director in charge 

of monitoring IT outsourcing, utility, and offshore services. "Success will depend on 
how well players transform their 

businesses in such areas as accessing new sets of customers likely to buy these 
services, ensuring that ecosystem 

partnerships support 'cannibalization' of older services and technologies, and 
aligning brands with the appropriate 

value chain position." 

While the outcome of the transition is not assured, many analysts agree that the new 
entrants will make a strong effort 

to dominate both the SME hosting and utility computing fields, once they all enter 
both fields in full force. 


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