Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
I was surprised to find an Amazon Web Services booth at the Microsoft PDC yesterday. They had nothing specific to say regarding additional Windows support or capabilities - at least not officially. What I did get was a wink-wink, nudge, nudge when I commented on Azure's integration with Active Directory and other touchpoints. "This is coming soon," I was then told. Then they saw that I had a media badge and that ended the discussion...
Looks like the enterprise is the battleground - which was only a matter of time. Following the great enterprise roadmap preview I saw last week at the RightScale user meeting in Santa Clara, this is quickly becoming a great market for business computing.
About John Treadway John Treadway is the author of CloudBzz (http://cloudbzz.com) and is Director of Cloud Computing Solutionsat Unisys. He's a senior enterprise technology marketing and business development executive with significant experience across horizontal IT and financial technology markets. John has founded or co-founded three companies and currently consults to a variety of technology businesses on marketing, strategy and cloud computing opportunities. Sites/BlogsCloudBzz
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