Cloud news just doesnt stop. Companies are scrambling to offer cloud based services with their own definitions. Other than the enabling technology behind the 'how' to abstract the storage and middleware layer from the application itself the enterprise will only see benefit once this is secure. This gives rise to 'Private Clouds'; let me host it but not manage is the way I look at it. Today Microsoft admits defeat against google from its cloud based offering for google docs, by offering Office Live 2010 in the Private Cloud. This business differentiation in the way MSFT is offering cloud services goes to show how MSFT cannot afford to compete in the public cloud space and trying to define its own cut of this market.
The article is posted here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218500287
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