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AppFog has been trailing the others, but ‘the others’ are guys like Microsoft, Google, and AWS. Thus, the combining AppFog with Savvis is perhaps not a bad idea. Read more »

Red Hat has a nice play in the cloud, and this is another step. While I don’t see them displacing the larger public cloud providers as of yet, I do see them having a nice share of this emerging market. Read more »

While this is something that most cloud computing pros have understood for years, it’s nice to have validation from an organization such as Berkeley Lab. Their results align with the thinking that moving to cloud computing is, indeed, good for the planet. Thus, we should continue the journey. Read more »

Logicworks is exploiting the need for this service, along with the momentum behind AWS, to provide an offering that should hold a great deal of promise in the emerging market. Read more »

IBM is understandably concerned, considering their dominance in the US government sector, and the fact that AWS is stepping on their toes. Indeed, this could be the motivation behind IBM’s SoftLayer acquisition announced last week. However, I suspect this is an emerging pattern that IBM won’t be able to reverse. Read more »

While AWS provides several different database options, RDS seems to be a popular choice, as enterprises relocate database operations to the cloud. Now that it’s released, including more commitments from AWS, it should be much more attractive to enterprise IT. Indeed, it seems to be the closest thing to a drop-in replacement of the larger DB players. Read more »

nvestors seemed troubled by Salesforce's decision to buy ExactTarget for $33.75 per share — 53 percent above ExactTarget's market value. It's a steep premium for a company that has suffered losses in each of the past four years, including nearly $58 million since the end of 2009. Read more »

IBM has purchased hundreds of companies to keep up with technology. I suspect this acquisition has about the same chances of success. The end game is for IBM to stop the bleeding that larger public cloud providers, such as AWS, are causing. Good first step, but there are 10 to 15 more to go. Read more »

Cloudera adds Apache Lucene/Solr search functionality to its Hadoop distro, extending the use of its platform to business users. Read more »

The advice is simple. Prepare for the continued growth, including the shift in some IT resources to the public cloud. Those of you who sell technology need to understand what will change, and how to take advantage of the change, or even minimize the damage. Those who buy and leverage technology need to understand how their world will change in the next 10 years, and plan accordingly. Read more »