Grazed from Wired.  Author: Jon Stokes.

Though I think the term is generally useless as either an analytical tool or category of computing that large entities can and should use in planning strategy, I’m not quite ready to give up on the idea that “the cloud” does have at least some worthwhile content. And after three days at the Cloud Expo, I’d like to suggest a simple signature of cloudiness that seems to fit everything I’ve seen with the sole exception of Oracle’s “cloud” offerings. Here’s my idea: it’s “cloud” at the platform and infrastructure layers if users can provision their own resources via some automated system…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: David Linthicum.

I was asked to talk about the future of cloud computing at Cloud Expo, taking place this week in Santa Clara, Calif. For those of you not at the show, I identified five key trends to anticipate…

Grazed from Directions Magazine.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from V3.  Author: Shaun Nichols.

Fujitsu has extended its cloud computing business with two new services and a set of hardware modules designed to serve as the basis for enterprise private cloud computing deployments…

Grazed from Knowledge@Wharton.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is not only changing how users access software applications, it’s also upending the pricing model for software products. Fading fast are the days when software packages were sold in boxes with a one-time, perpetual software license fee. Instead, consumers and businesses are increasingly turning to subscription models and are buying only those applications they need for particular tasks rather than broad, general-purpose suites…

Grazed from Reuters.  Author: Alistair Barr.

Amazon.com’s investment opportunities are under a cloud — and that’s a good thing.

Five years after launching its so-called cloud computing service, the biggest Internet retailer is reaping the benefits of what has become a unique window into the technology startup world…

Grazed from Government Computing News.  Author: Rutrell Yasin.

NASA is working on a cloud "storefront" that will give the agency’s scientists and engineers access to the computing resources and services they require regardless of their IT environment…

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Laurianne McLaughlin.

A security expert whom I follow on Twitter recently took issue with journalists’ continued insistence on writing headlines about moving to the cloud, racing to the cloud, and traveling to the cloud. He’s absolutely right. You don’t move to the cloud. The cloud is not a place, when we speak of it in computing terms. It is an operational model (with many variations) that you adopt–and then continue to adapt…