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Derrick Harris
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Sam Dean at OStatic wrote a great post about whether mostly proprietary cloud offerings like Microsoft Azure those provided by Amazon Web Services will be able to compete with open source offerings like Eucalyptus and other emerging products. I think they can, and I think they might win. There is work being done on clouds standards that will enable interoperability, and that could be enough for many companies. Proprietary software has not died yet, and part of the reason is companies love full-featured, fully supported products — and cloud computing, especially, is supposed to be about making life easier.

A cloud a risin’

Are we on the verge of a cloud operating system to challenge Windows, Linux and the rest?

Submitted by Paul Miller
CIO Summit: Coming to grips with the future of Cloud computing

Hamish Barwick discusses the concept of "Oursourcing 3.0," and considers future roles for the cloud.

Submitted by Paul Miller
SaaS for speedy relief of licence headaches

Centrally procured Software as a Service has the potential to simplify asset management in distributed organizations.

Submitted by Paul Miller
Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed

Tom Raftery is unpersuaded by claims in a recent report that cloud computing will reduce carbon emissions.

Submitted by Paul Miller
A really useless Cloud Computing Index

Jo Maitland is unimpressed by First Trust Portfolios' "Cloud Computing Index."

Submitted by Paul Miller