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Cloudy Days Ahead

Posted September 4th, 2009 by Tom Boucher

If you spent any time on the Solutions Exchange floor this week at VMworld 2009 there was one thing that was pretty clear. The Cloud has come.

What is a Cloud? It’s Cloud Computing that a lot of vendors have jumped onto whole heartedly, and with good reason, as this is where a lot of growth potential can come from.

But for the nerds on the ground, what makes cloud computing any different from a hardware perspective than the computing we’ve been doing for the last ten years, or longer?

In my sarcastic ‘been there done that’ view of the world, I say not a whole lot. Continue reading…