For the reasons you have mentioned in your posts including The Cloud Hits the Mainstream: More than Half of U.S. Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing, where many excellent points are made with regard to enterprise adoption of cloud computing, venture capitalists are treating this area as one of their highest priorities.
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He cites recent acquisitions of software-defined network and network virtualization pure-plays by existing cloud players as proof points.
Driving down to Le Brassus, a little mountain town near the forest that houses many of Switzerland's most prestigious watchmakers, Jean-Michel Capt points to a mountain shrouded in cloud.
Research posted last year by Lydia Leong, Research VP at Gartner, points to some of the challenges facing Cloud providers, specifically within the OpenStack community.
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Older middleware (the point between big computers and applications) is increasingly part of the cloud infrastructure, and end points like phones and laptops now choose, manage and load applications, with or without approval from corporate IT departments.
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Still, the points raised in the MeriTalk study also provide a case for cloud within the private sector as well.
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Everything they experience is not only shared, it becomes part of the collective cloud of experiences that is directly connected to new touch points.
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He added that the case points toward important unsettled legal issues with new technology like complex cellphones and cloud storage.
So, pieces of the ideal, which has existed for almost a decade, are beginning to fall into place: multiple devices that serve different functions all pointing at the user and maintaining state, network communications and cloud-based services that coordinate them all, and control points and apps that allow the user to get the most out of his or her device pantheon in the most convenient way.
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