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Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Bob Evans.

For several years now, the technology industry has been engaged in the noble pursuit of delivering more power and speed and elegance into the hands of users, and the results are clear in every facet of our lives—from political revolutions fanned by social media, to vast improvements in mobile commerce, to the emergence of a truly interconnected lifestyle.

Without question, cloud computing has been a huge contributor to this movement as corporate computing—both applications and devices—was exposed as woefully unable to deliver the type of rich and expansive online experiences to which we had all become accustomed in our personal lives thanks to cloud-based applications…

Grazed from PR NewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

OpenNebula 3.0 features the latest innovations in cloud computing for the deployment of cutting-edge enterprise-ready on-premise IaaS clouds.

The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the third major release of its widely deployed OpenNebula Toolkit, a fully open-source enterprise-grade cloud computing tool for the complete and comprehensive management of clouds and virtualized data centers. OpenNebula 3.0 delivers availability, reliability, scalability, security and efficiency with a focus on allowing data centers to provide cloud services by leveraging their existing IT assets, instead of building a new system from the ground up, thus protecting existing investments and avoiding vendor lock-in…

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKEndrick.

Grazed from MIT Technical Review.  Author: Simson L. Garfinkel.

Before Facebook and Google—even before the Internet—scientists at MIT had a radical vision they called the computer utility.

"Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility," Professor John McCarthy said at MIT’s centennial celebration in 1961. "Each subscriber needs to pay only for the capacity he actually uses, but he has access to all programming languages characteristic of a very large system … Certain subscribers might offer service to other subscribers … The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry."…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Roger Strukhoff.

There are many reasons to move toward cloud computing in one of its forms. In fact, with so many current forms, it’s difficult not to move toward cloud computing in some manner.

It’s easy enough to become cynical about, and even resistant to, all cloud computing pitches and conversations, now that all vendors are defining the cloud on their own terms…

Grazed from WebProNews.  Author:  Abby Johnson.

With so much hype around how great cloud computing is, it’s hard to imagine it any way other than good. The news is full of stories about what the cloud can do, the increased adoption rate of the cloud, and how more and more businesses are developing cloud applications. As a result, it would be really easy for businesses that are not on board with cloud computing to think that they’re way behind the times…

Grazed from SDB.  Author:  Cary McGovern

You could call me an observer of technology more than an expert. I have been involved in computing since 1967 and have seen a variety of techniques and ideas come and go. The cloud is the "next big thing," though it has been around for a long time…

Grazed from MIT Technical Review.  Author: Christopher Mims.

What’s missing from the story of Amazon’s new cloud-turbocharged Silk browser, presently available only on its Fire tablet but probably coming to other devices, is the larger context of this technology. What would happen, for example, if Amazon used its massive cloud computing infrastructure not merely to pre-process the user’s browsing experience, but also to offload much of the processing powering of the rest of a device’s apps and OS?…