Canada Cloud Roadmap

Blueprint for next generation Cloud services

The Canada Cloud Roadmap is a Technology Roadmap for the Cloud computing industry, a guide to planning new products and services such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

It’s therefore an ideal (free!) planning resource for telcos, web hosting companies, SaaS entrepreneurs and any other business considering expanding their product set into the Cloud, and covers:

• How to build a product roadmap plan for Cloud services
• Market segments and sizings
• Service models
• Innovation Accelerators: Industry solutions

Download Canada Cloud Roadmap, a free and open source resource.

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Industry Accelerators

Industry Accelerators package consulting expertise, managed services and vendors into pre-packaged solutions for specific business scenarios

• Always On Cloud Computing
• Cloud Identity best practices
• Smart Health
• Integrated Media and Gaming
• Internet of Things
• Next Generation Education

Business Planning

Technology Roadmaps directly feed startup business plans because both document specific product and industry segment opportunities, for the same reasons – For attracting investment and so forth.

For example in this article on VentureBeat they describe the different insights that American investors are using to quantify the Cloud industry opportunities, and this can be linked directly to this model of product innovation – In the article they reference how Bessemer Ventures are focused on sectors like PaaS (Platform as a Service).

With this in mind then the types of analyst reports that help define the target markets include reports like the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Hosting. This provides an overview of the main market players and what products and services they offer, and makes key headline points like just how far ahead Amazon is in front of every one else.

There are many others that the Roadmap can pick and choose from that share different perspectives. For example it is especially illuminating to look at the product strategies of the major vendors, like this slide from a Citrix presentation, which describes it in the terms they perceive the market:

Not only does this show the growth rates but also the major product categories.

• Enterprises to spend more than $235 billion by 2017
• Gartner aPaaS Magic Quadrant
• IDC estimates PaaS to reach $14b by 2017
• GigaOM PaaS sector roadmap