Public cloud solutions, as rolled out by Amazon AWS, Google AppEngine and Microsoft Azure have proven that capacity-on-demand is good ROI. There is real dollar value in migrating certain types of applications to cloud clusters. Though not every application is ready for migration to these public clouds due to legal and privacy reasons.
To address privacy and compliance requirements, virtualization vendors – led by pioneer VMware, started offering in-house cloud solutions. vCloud product leverages VMware’s lead in virtualization and extends that advantage in variable capacity management. vCloud APIs will be available …

Saleforce (CRM) reported very impressive quarterly revenue numbers. Proving that even in this economy there is scope to wring out cost efficiency. Salesforce is winning at the expense of Oracle and SAP suits. CEO, Mark Benioff, in his characteristic style is hitting on pet themes and slamming familiar vendors (Full transcript at SeekingAlpha):

These new customer additions are key to our growth strategy not only because they result in new business today, but because of their growth potential in the future. There’s a common theme in the deals we won …

I am struggling to understand the definition of cloud computing – in the context of IT budget allocation. How is industry going to classify something as falling under cloud computing budget? In many companies I work with there is no Chief Cloud Officer operating with allocated budget.
With data center, we know there is an infrastructure cost component and staffing (along with well defined roles) which goes with it. Similarly on the application side, we have line of businesses and strategic initiatives.
Question is who is going to the primary driver for …