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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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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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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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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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.

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He cites recent acquisitions of software-defined network and network virtualization pure-plays by existing cloud players as proof points.

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He points out that dozens of companies are supporting OpenStack such as Dell and HP, and that Rackspace will move its public cloud, second only in size to Amazon, to OpenStack later this year.

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