SoftLayer vs. 亞馬遜網(wǎng)絡服務

????挑戰(zhàn)目標：簡單地說，亞馬遜（Amazon）、Saleforce.com和云計算領域的其他大公司都是其競爭對手。

????創(chuàng)業(yè)故事：七年前，蘭斯?克羅斯比在達拉斯與人合作成立了云計算基礎設施供應商SoftLayer，他當時便知道自己肯定能夠成功。公司客戶們對于通過SoftLayer全球平臺管理服務器等IT資源創(chuàng)意很是中意。它們再也不必購買自己的平臺。可惜，克羅斯比并不是第一個有這種想法的人：亞馬遜網(wǎng)絡服務在同一時間發(fā)布。為了突出自己的公司，42歲的克羅斯比將重心放在吸引有經(jīng)驗的消費者上面，如手機應用開發(fā)人員，而不是與亞馬遜爭奪更廣泛的受眾。去年，公司約有700名員工，總收入達到3.3億美元?？肆_斯比說：“目前，云技術(shù)發(fā)展迅速，各大公司都在搶占地盤。”

????譯者：劉進龍/汪皓

SoftLayer vs. Amazon Web Services

????The challenge: Simply put, Amazon, Salesforce.com, and every other 500-pound gorilla in the cloud-computing universe.

????What he did: Lance Crosby knew he was onto something when he co-founded SoftLayer, a provider of cloud-based computing infrastructure, seven years ago in Dallas. Companies loved the idea of managing their IT resources, like servers, through SoftLayer's global platform instead of having to buy them on their own. Unfortunately, he wasn't the first to think of the idea: Amazon Web Services got rolling around the same time. To stand out, Crosby, 42, focused on attracting sophisticated customers like mobile-app developers, rather than Amazon's broader audience. Last year the profitable, nearly 700-employee firm logged $330 million in revenue. Crosby says, "Currently the cloud is growing so fast that it's a land grab at this point."