Global cloud computing market in 2011

Various service providers such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft, and small but agile niche players such as Dropbox, are driving the consumer cloud market, currently offering 100 gigabytes of storage for about 20 U.S. dollars a month. Clearly, however, the price is still unacceptably high for most families, and the amount of storage offered is not nearly enough.This situation offers telecom operators one of the most significant opportunities for additional revenue to come along in years, if they can use their inherent advantages to play successfully in the cloud infrastructure game—if not in cloud services. The Booz & Company white paper contains information about revenue and cost structures in the cloud market. The paper takes a look in the global device sales and the amount of media content owned by households.