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Fig. 8.8:
Aspects of an extensible service portals framework for Grid and Cloud computing
Results in the area of Grid Portals have been validated in various vertical market
sectors including a Business Experiment focusing on production scheduling and
virtual retailing in the Textile Industry, described in BE13 (2009), and a Business
Experiment demonstrating the enactment of Web2.0 workflows for Service Oriented
Infrastructures in complex enterprises, described in BE23 (2009).
8.8 An example that brings it all together
The European IT Infrastructure Management Services market was worth almost
50 billion Euros in 2006 according to a report from IDC (IDC 2005) and has been
increasing by almost 10% a year until 2009. It appears that a similar trend is now
emerging in the Cloud computing area. Merrill Lynch (2008) derives the spending
on Cloud computing from total software spending. For 2011, it is expected that
