The church bells chime noon in the Val Badia, and Michil Costa sits outside his hotel in his home village of Corvara, studying a tattered road map through a cloud of cigar smoke.

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Cloud is moving technology design to a point in which business users can quickly, on demand, map interconnected but discrete services to business processes as they are needed, then being able to quickly disassemble and redeploy those services as business needs change.

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