The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
To answer that, consider what Apple did at its outset to make computing friendly, setting a standard subsequently emulated by competitors.
Qualcomm and Samsung became Founder members of the HSA Foundation, adding their support to AMD's vision of delivering a common hardware standard for heterogeneous computing.
Or in a cell phone, for that matter, which is one of the reasons that major cell phone makers from Nokia to Ericsson recently decided to support another stripped-down operating system--this one from London-based Psion--as a standard for wireless computing.
If Amazon does participate, says Forrester research analyst James Staten, the company will likely use its heft in the cloud computing industry to assert control over the standard and shape it to Amazon's current services.
For the past fifteen years Seton Hall has been a ubiquitous computing campus , that is, we provide a standard laptop to undergraduate students and their faculty as part of their tuition and fees.
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Other players, like Layered Technologies and Enki, which use 3Tera's Applogic software to serve up their computing and storage to customers, will also become part of the standard by default.
In a parallel universe, MeeGo became the standard operating system for netbooks, which became the dominant form of mobile computing.
As has become the standard for new Web-based startups, the site is using Amazon Web Services to provide computing services.
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