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I kind of thought we were a little for “10 things to watch for in 2010” type posts but it seems ChannelWeb doesn’t think so and have compiled a list of somewhat conflicting Cloud prophesies for 2010 from some of the clouderati. So without any further ado – let’s hear what them-that-know predict will happen this year and my measure of how accurate ...

Yesterday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk on Cloud Computing at the University of Washington, Seattle. Check out the video of the entire talk here . Let me briefly highlight the key points from his talk and then offer my perspectives on it. He was highlighting five key dimensions of the cloudCloud creates opportunities and responsibilities: ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a speech about the cloud Thursday that was webcast. “We are betting our company on” it, he said. Apparently Microsoft has shifted 70% of its work to the cloud. Should hit 90% a year from now. He also observed that Google is better at search than Yahoo, a lot better. The desktop won’t disappear soon the way Google ...

When a virus strikes, you don't have time to wait for your AV tool to update itself. Panda Cloud Antivirus takes a slightly different tack to most by storing the latest virus information and definitions online, and the benefits are of this system are clear. Ordinarily, whenever a new virus threat is detected, this fact must be recognised and acted ...

There was lots of buzz not too long ago about Apple trying to get into the streaming music service, and moving that content to the cloud to compete with services like Pandora and others who seem to be taking some of the wind out of iTunes’ sails. Now, it seems like music wasn’t the only [...]

FAQShop (FAQShop) on giovedì 4 marzo 2010 at 18.07.15[Microsoft Research] A New Way to Interact with the Cloud: Cloudcomputing encompasses a mind-boggling array of te... http://bit.ly/9HKkfO

Image via CrunchBaseSkytap , the Seattle based lab cloud automation provider, has announced powerful network automation capabilities in the cloud. Skytap is one of the hot companies in the enterprise cloud space (see my previous coverage here and here ). I have been following them closely and I have often wondered about their long term strategy. ...

I wrote a review of GroceryIQ just over a year ago and I have continued to use it frequently. The new GroceryIQ 2 expands on the original concept by taking advantage of the power of a connected mobile device that can tap into the cloud. These significant improvements have pushed the app from “frequently used” [...]

CloudSwitch on Monday announced that it has launched its beta program for CloudSwitch Explorer. For the first time, enterprises can move existing, multi-tiered applications to the Amazon EC2 cloud with point-and-click simplicity and no modifications. CloudSwitch's innovative software bridges the enterprise data center with cloud computing services, ...

Cloud computing means many things, but almost all definitions include some key value propositions: scalable on-demand resources, a metered pay-per-use model, access over the Internet, and infrastructure management and optimization that is better than most data centers.

At a more conceptual level, cloud computing abstracts away all the ...