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.
SOA and cloud computing go hand-in-hand, since cloud computing is in essence merely the ability to leverage new platforms and resources that you don't happen to own.
The flexibility and agility of a cloud environment resembles environments offered by SOA. Moreover, cloud computing can help meet escalating storage and compute demand without the delay traditionally associated with establishing an enterprise-level infrastructure.
At SYS-CON's SOA & Cloud Bootcamp tomorrow, being held in conjunction the the 15th International SOA World Conference & Expo in New York (June 22-23, 2009), software industry entrepreneur and Bootcamp Instructor Alan Williamson will explore these linked approaches further, and seek deal with real problems and look at alternative solutions.
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