Who Controls the Cloud Market - Providers or Consumers?
	January 28 2013
	By: Ilyas Iyoob - Sr. Research Scientist, and Director of Advanced Analytics at Gravitant
	We first went from reserving cloud capacity to securing capacity on-demand, and then we even started to bid for unused capacity in the spot market – all in an effort to decrease cost in the cloud. Can we take this one step further? Instead of us bidding for capacity, wouldn't it be interesting if we can get providers to bid for our demand?

	The dark side of the internet
	December 03 2012
	By: Tinniam V Ganesh - Founder & Owner at INWARDi Technologies
	This article looks at the issues that arise because of inefficiencies in large datacenters

	Why the Cost of Sales Gap is Shrinking between SaaS and Legacy Software Vendors
	November 26 2012
	By: Jeff Kaplan - Founder & Managing Director at THINKstrategies, Inc
	Today’s leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies continue to steal share from their legacy, independent software vendor (ISV) counterparts due to rising demand for their cloud-based application alternatives. However, many of those offering enterprise SaaS solutions are also seeing their sales costs rise as well. This is raising some serious questions about the short- and long-term profitability of the SaaS model compared with its traditional, on-premises predecessor. This commentary examines the industry implications of these trends.

	Channeling New Cloud Opportunities
	November 11 2012
	By: Jeff Kaplan - Founder & Managing Director at THINKstrategies, Inc
	Channel companies must accept that the cloud fundamentally disrupts their traditional business models. They must recognize that meeting their customers' rising expectations requires transforming their go-to-market strategies and services. It changes the skills required, the sales tactics, the value propositions and service delivery methodologies. This article discusses the channel opportunities and challenges which were examined at the second annual Cloud Channel Summit on November 5, 2012.

	Future of Cloud Computing in 2013
	October 29 2012
	By: Richa Pokhriyal - Digital Media Specialist at Egocentrix
	Cloud is hot, cloud is here to stay and no matter how inefficient and insecure you feel it is, you would not like to miss any update on cloud. Probably 2012 is the year when cloud market has faced many negative allegations too for example cloud marketing is blamed of misleading the clients and users. Cloud was called the victim of over marketing. At the same time businesses have realized that cloud computing is not just about going on-premise to off-premise for saving few thousand dollars but it is a complete business transformation strategy. Cloud, Mobile application development and big data was the popular trio of the year. Now year is about to end. So where cloud computing is heading in 2013? What is the future of cloud computing especially what are the major shifts taking place and what form it would take in 2013 and coming years? Following are the complete details: http://egocentrix.com/blog/2012/10/29/state-cloud-computing-2013/

	The next frontier
	October 18 2012
	By: Tinniam V Ganesh - Founder & Owner at INWARDi Technologies
	The article discusses the possible future of data centers and the cloud given the issues of WAN latency.

	Looking Ahead: A Cloud Report from 2015
	September 07 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Technical Lead at iGATE
	Find out what the future may have in store for cloud computing.

	Trends for Cloud Customers in 2012
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	Trends for Cloud Customers in 2012

	SaaS Trends in 2012
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	SaaS Trends in 2012

	BIG Data Trends in 2012
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	BIG Data Trends in 2012

	PaaS / BPaaS / IaaS Trends in 2012
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	PaaS / BPaaS / IaaS Trends in 2012

	General Cloud Computing Trends in 2012
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	General Cloud Computing Trends in 2012

	Trends For Cloud Service Providers and Traditional IT Vendors in 2012
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	Trends For Cloud Service Providers and Traditional IT Vendors in 2012

	Cloud Computing Adoption Concerns in 2012
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	Cloud Computing Adoption Concerns

	Gartner: Cloud Adoption in India
	February 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	Cloud Adoption in India

	Recent Trends in Cloud Services Adoption
	February 06 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	The cloud is also a world with various layers and choices. Do you adopt a public, private or hybrid cloud model? Do you use the cloud for software or your whole infrastructure? Are you a formal (enterprise IT) buyer or an informal (mid-market, SMB) buyer, and how does that affect the model you choose? Then there are the different service models, aka the “aaS” acronyms: SaaS (software-as-a-service), IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service). Adopters of public cloud services will be from the “informal” buyer camp, which are mostly small and midsize businesses or enterprise users who are outside the core IT operations and transaction teams. These buyers are more likely to follow the IaaS and PaaS models and put all their IT resources (servers, storage) in a cloud environment.

	Cloud Computing : Legacy Is a Challenge, Not A Barrier
	January 31 2012
	By: Patrick Pushor - CTO & Founder at CloudChronicle.com
	Do legacy workloads have a place in cloud computing? Its often not a black and white discussion. With the right perspective and tools we may be able to make intelligent choices around legacy workloads and their place in the cloud.

	Latest on Cloud ComputingPredictions, New Offerings and Other News
	January 30 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	1) AWS Storage Gateway 2) Other Predictions 3) Information Age’s 2012 reader survey 4) Unisys 2012 Predictions for Cloud Computing 5) How Cloud Redefines Our Most Important Business Technology 6) Relationships 7) Amazon’s Expanding Ventures in Cloud Computing 8) Enterprise Going Strong on Green IT Initiatives 9) Cloud computing fuels the economy and creates jobs 10) Amazon Embraces Flexibility 11) ATMs using cloud computing for security 12) Dell Introduces 200-VM Server for Private Cloud

	Amazon DynamoDB: NoSQL in Amazon Public Cloud
	January 19 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	NoSQL Databases are built without relations. But is it really that “good” to go for NoSQL Databases? A world without relations, no joins and pure scalability! NoSQL databases typically emphasize horizontal scalability via partitioning, putting them in a good position to leverage the elastic provisioning capabilities of the cloud. Amazon has announced the immediate availability of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Lets find more details on it.

	10 Cloud Computing Uses, Day 1: Agriculture and Irrigation
	January 03 2012
	By: Patrick Pushor - CTO & Founder at CloudChronicle.com
	Cloud computing can help farmers automate their business processes, gain efficiency through "just-in-time" resource utilization, and provide a path of least resistance for expansion.

	Supply Chain Management Migrates to the Cloud Via the Channel
	April 12 2011
	By: Joe King - Group Vice President, Managed Services at JDA Software Group, Inc
	Joseph King, SVP JDA Managed Services, discussed how JDA selected Layered Tech as its cloud provider and Burstorm's role in this selection process.

	JDA Customers Looking to the Cloud
	April 12 2011
	By: Joe King - Group Vice President, Managed Services at JDA Software Group, Inc
	Joseph King, VP of JDA Managed Services, discusses JDA's customers movement to the cloud.

	Dreamforce 2010 and the State of the Cloud
	December 11 2010
	By: Jeff Kaplan - Founder & Managing Director at THINKstrategies, Inc
	Dreamsimplicity catches up with industry veteran, Jeff Kaplan, at Dreamforce 2010 to get an update on THINKstrategies, the SaaS Showplace and the Cloud Computing marketplace.

	Reality & The Cloud
	October 27 2010
	By: Werner Vogels - VP, CTO at Amazon.com, Inc
	Building on massive regional broadband and access initiatives, individuals and organizations now have ample opportunities to access a continuously growing variety of online services that are based on cloud computing.

	Computing Remotely
	October 26 2010
	By: Werner Vogels - VP, CTO at Amazon.com, Inc
	Amazon.com CTO, Werner Vogels, talks about cloud computing, the Indian market, and the economics of free services.

	OSCON 2010: The Journey So Far
	August 23 2010
	By: James Urquhart - Manager, Cloud Computing & Virtualized Data Centers Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc
	The Cloud Manager at Cisco Systems discusses the past five years of cloud computing.

	Cisco CTO on Innovation
	June 29 2010
	By: Padmasree Warrior - Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems, Inc
	Cisco CTO, Padmasree Warrior, discusses Cisco's philosophy for innovation, current market trends and the biggest challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs today.

	Gaining Altitude Part 2
	April 12 2010
	By: Werner Vogels - VP, CTO at Amazon.com, Inc
	The Chairman & CEO at Salesforce.com, Marc Benioff, and the VP & CTO at Amazon.com, Werner Vogels, discuss the direction of cloud computing at the Google Atmosphere event.

	Hacking Cloud Computing Adoption
	March 31 2010
	By: Guy Rosen - Co-Founder & CEO at Vircado
	The CO-Founder and CEO of Vicardo, creators of a breakthrough proxy-as-a-service platform, gives a keynote at the Cloud Connect Conference.

	The Real Cloud - Episode 2: Counting the Cloud – February 2010
	February 22 2010
	By: Guy Rosen - Co-Founder & CEO at Vircado John Rowell - Co-Founder & CTO at OpSource
	In the second episode of "The Real Cloud" John Rowell discusses Cloud Computing measurement practices and trends with Guy Rosen, the Co-Founder & CEO of Vircado.

	Looking Ahead: A Cloud Report from 2015
	September 07 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Technical Lead at iGATE
	Find out what the future may have in store for cloud computing.

	Leaders in the Cloud Research Study Survey Findings
	March 19 2010
	By: Kamesh Pemmaraju - Leading Research on Cloud Computing & Independent Cloud Computing Consultant at SandHill
	The Sand Hill Group’s new study “Leaders in the Cloud” conducted in-depth interviews with forty CIOs and tech leaders and surveyed more than 500 IT executives. The combination of these two research efforts provides unparalleled insight into customer perceptions of cloud computing, current and planned cloud initiatives, adoption drivers, business and technological benefits. The following pages contain a summary of selected findings from the survey of IT executives. The “Leaders in the Cloud” report also contains more than a dozen use cases from a diverse group of industries which demonstrate the real business value being achieved, as well as the latest best practices and lessons learned from real-world cloud projects.

	State of the Cloud - February 2010
	February 12 2010
	By: Guy Rosen - Co-Founder & CEO at Vircado
	Monthly rundown of cloud computing providers.

	State of the Cloud - January 2010
	January 22 2010
	By: Guy Rosen - Co-Founder & CEO at Vircado
	Monthly rundown of cloud computing providers.

	Enterprise Usage of Clouds
	January 15 2009
	By: Ignacio M Llorente - Full Professor & Head of Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid
	Position Papers: Enterprise Usage of Clouds

	Cloud Hosting Awareness Survey
	January 15 2009
	By: Lanham Napier - President & CEO at Rackspace Hosting, Inc
	Rackspace Survey Reveals that Small Businesses are Missing out on Cloud Hosting Benefits.

	How SaaS Ecosystems are Evolving to Meet the Needs of Emerging SaaS Vendors
	July 24 2008
	By: Chris Hoffmann - Sr Principle & Research Director at TripleTree, LLC
	SaaS ecosystems are changing as CIO's warm to the idea of "renting" their application functionality and specialty software firms seek partnership opportunities that offer more than marketing support. This panel discussion included three industry executives from technology firms whose solutions roadmaps include SaaS Platforms. As key features like compliance, collaboration and administrative functions begin to categorize areas of strength for SaaS Platform vendors, this webcast helped listeners formulate a checklist of considerations for selecting SaaS partners or making SaaS investments.

	Rackspace Green Survey
	June 19 2008
	By: Lanham Napier - President & CEO at Rackspace Hosting, Inc
	Learn more about the perceptions that our business customers have regarding environmental issues and the impact of IT on climate change.

	Enterprise Software Customer Survey 2008
	April 30 2008
	By: Abhijit Dubey - Partner at McKinsey & Company
	Innovation in the software industry is on the upswing, with Software as a Service (SaaS) being a key driver. The SaaS model is becoming mainstream and this has led to the rise of a new generation of SaaS platforms (also referred to in the industry as Platformas-a-Service PaaS). This year's survey of more than 850 enterprise software customers by McKinsey & Co in collaboration with the SandHill Group and the Software and Interop conferences showed increasing acceptance of subscription and on-demand models but more surprisingly, a high portion (74 percent) of enterprise customers favorably disposed to adopting SaaS platforms.

	Rackspace Virtualization Survey
	August 17 2007
	By: Lanham Napier - President & CEO at Rackspace Hosting, Inc
	Gain insight into Rackspace customer's perception regarding the adoption of virtualization and the benefits and challenges of this highly complex technology.

	Rackspace Software as a Service Perceptions Survey
	March 15 2007
	By: Lanham Napier - President & CEO at Rackspace Hosting, Inc
	Read about the perceptions Rackspace customers have regarding the adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) and the influence of application uptime and availability.

	John Lewis deploys cloud-based appointments system
	August 14 2011 - ComputerWorld
	By: Antony Savvas John Lewis is deploying a cloud computing-based appointment booking system across all its department stores.
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	Amazon betting on cloud computing, sacrificing some profit
	April 26 2011 - Reuters
	By: Phil Wahba Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is thinking long-term when it spends heavily on "the cloud," but investors may see a little more short-term rain when the online retailer reports its earnings on Tuesday. The company has been willing to sacrifice some profitability to win customers and build its new businesses. It has invested heavily in areas such as "cloud computing" -- which allows companies to store data on its servers -- to take on its rivals Google Inc and Apple Inc.
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	SMEs in UK slower to adopt cloud computing than Europe's firms
	April 26 2011 - The Telegraph
	By: Richard Tyler and James Hurley It comes as IT giants Microsoft and Tata Consultancy Services have launched on-demand, internet-based business software platforms for small and medium-sized enterprises and IBM claimed last week that its new product range would fuel the adoption of so-called "cloud" based services from the current "experimentation" phase to "full scale deployment". However, the UK appears to be lagging behind the rest of Europe with the survey of 1,600 companies by VMware finding that on average 60pc of SMEs had adopted some internet-based IT compared to only 48pc in the UK.
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	Amazon Web Services Service Health Dashboard
	April 25 2011 - Amazon
	By: Automated Health status of Amazon's various cloud services
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	Intel Benefits from Cloud Computing, Explosion in Mobile Devices
	April 20 2011 - eWeek
	By: Fahmida Y. Rashid The shift to cloud computing is fueling strong growth in Intel's enterprise server business as the company gears up to play in the tablet and smartphone segment.
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	This Week's IPO Buzz: From China to the Cloud
	April 20 2011 - Seeking Alpha
	By: John Fitzgibbon When words such as “cloud computing” and “China” wrap their fingers around an IPO these days, you can anticipate some aftermarket fireworks. 21Vianet Group (VNET) – a Chinese “cloud computing” company – heads up this week’s IPO calendar. The Street is calling it “the pick of the week.” 21Vianet believes it is the largest carrier-neutral Internet data center services provider (“cloud computing”) in China. The company operates 47 data centers in 33 cities throughout China, including all of China’s major Internet hubs, with over 5,700 cabinets under management housing over 39,000 servers. 21Vianet planned to price 11.5 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) at $10 to $12 each on Wednesday evening to trade on Thursday.
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	IBM Sees Cloud Computing Growth, Weakening Public Sector Sales In Q1
	April 19 2011 - CRN
	By: Rick Whiting IBM (NYSE:IBM) expects its cloud computing sales to double this year, putting the company on track to grow its cloud-related sales to $7 billion by 2015, an IBM executive said Tuesday.
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	Glenn signs contract for cloud computing
	April 19 2011 - Orland Press Register
	By: Rick Longley It has been years in planning and Glenn County finally signed a contract to centralize its computer systems into one so-called cloud for Internet services. The Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with AT&T on Tuesday to provide a more unified computer network for the county referred to as Customized Switched Metro Ethernet Services.
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	Meath VEC deploys cloud solution
	April 18 2011 - Tech Central.ie
	By: Staff Education & Research | 18 Apr 2011 : Meath VEC today became the first second level education institution to deploy centralised managed cloud computing across its network of schools and education centres. Working with Microsoft, the entire network of schools now has a single point for all technology resources and all teachers have access to the same teaching materials, can access virtual classrooms and share resources. Minister for Training and Skills Ciarán Cannon announced that Wicklow VEC will now work with Microsoft to rollout cloud computing to its 12 schools based on the successful Meath VEC model.
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	As Law Firms Fly Into Cloud Computing, Will CIOs Matter?
	April 14 2011 - Law Technology News
	By: Chris Romano When Harvard Business Review published Nicholas Carr's 2004 book, Does IT Matter?, the reaction was incendiary. Carr argued that technological, economic, and competitive forces were combining to transform the role IT plays in business, and that technology had become a commodity that doesn't provide competitive advantages. Two Harvard business professors were among the many readers who declared Carr, in essence, clueless.
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	Radiant sees off-site 'cloud computing' as key to growth
	April 14 2011 - The Vancouver Sun
	By: Scott Simpson David Buffett likes to compare his company to a utility - for better or for worse. The email and high-speed data network connections that Radiant Communications provides for about 4,000 customers, including Tim Hortons, lululemon and Burger King, guarantee a steady stream of revenue.
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	The Business Market Plays Cloud Computing Catch-Up
	April 14 2011 - New York Times
	By: STEVE LOHR The big spenders on technology are businesses and government agencies. They buy about 75 percent of the computing goods and services sold worldwide. Yet it is increasingly evident they are not driving the new ideas, excitement and powerhouse technology companies in ascent these days.
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	CRM Cloud Computing Leader Salesforce.com Presents Strong 2011 Outlook
	April 13 2011 - TMCnet
	By: Susan J. Campbell Did you know that the concept of cloud computing actually arrived with the Internet? Of course, at that time it didn’t have the cloud name and solutions weren’t really available for users to take advantage of it, but thousands of individuals around the world have been using cloud computing for years without even realizing it. Now, cloud computing seems to be coming into its own, evolving into an industry that is expected to top $140 billion by 2014.
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	Cloud Computing Expedites Trauma Care at UC San Diego Health System
	April 12 2011 - UC San Diego Health System
	By: Press Release An electronic, cloud-based approach to sharing radiology files with other medical institutions is expediting the care of UC San Diego Health System trauma patients. The method is currently being used to speed the diagnosis and treatment of patients sent to UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest from remote area hospitals.
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	Disaster Recovery Moving Into The Cloud
	April 10 2011 - Data Storage Connection
	By: Bob Roudebush Cloud computing is one of the most talked-about trends in IT, and the market for cloud services is exploding. In fact, IDC says cloud computing was a $17.4B market in 2009, but is expected to grow to $44.2B in 2013.
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	Toyota to use Microsoft Windows Azure ‘cloud computing’
	April 07 2011 - Car Advice
	By: Brett Davis Toyota president, Akio Toyoda, and Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, have just announced a partnership deal which will introduce Microsoft’s Windows Azure ‘cloud computing’ platform into Toyota plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles of the future.
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	Toyota and Microsoft Team Up to Bring Cloud Computing On the Road
	April 07 2011 - Techland
	By: Chris Gayomali Yesterday afternoon, Toyota and Microsoft announced a new $12 million partnership that aims to bring cloud computing on the road. This team-up will grant the industry-leading automaker's vehicles access to streaming music, telecommunications information, GPS and energy mangement on the go.
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	Microsoft Says to Spend 90% of R&D on Cloud Strategy
	April 07 2011 - Bloomberg
	By: Aydan Eksin Microsoft International President Jean-Philippe Courtois said the company will spend 90 percent of its $9.6 billion research and development budget on cloud strategy this year.
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	Seven in 10 businesses worried about managing cloud
	April 04 2011 - ComputerWorld UK
	By: Leo King Seventy one percent of businesses are concerned about managing cloud computing, according to a survey.
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	Manufacturing Industry Benefiting From Cloud Computing, Microsoft Says
	April 04 2011 - ITProPortal
	By: Staff Cloud computing is transforming the manufacturing industry value chain as manufacturers begin to realise the benefits of cloud based computing, Microsoft has claimed. According to the Microsoft Discrete Manufacturing Cloud Computing Survey 2011, IT decision makers in European and US based manufacturing industries are planning on moving to the cloud for their IT needs.
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