Red Hat recently announced “Cloud Foundations: edition one”, a complete package of tools required to build, run,manage,use or in short work with a private cloud. With that red-hat joined the growing number of vendors who have added  cloud-computing management software to their product lines.
With Cloud Foundations, customers can avail the benefits of the cloud today, with lower risk and simple, easy implementation. It is available immediately and is designed to expand the reach of the cloud, to enable people to use a real private cloud easily.
The package includes a comprehensive …

Greenpeace recently released its “make IT green” report which predicts that cloud computing will increase the energy problems. It alleges that Cloud computing will consume nearly 2 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity a year by 2020.

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Greenpeace names Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and others in its report saying:
With the growth of the cloud, however, comes an increasing demand for energy. For all of this content to be delivered to us in real time, virtual mountains of video, pictures and other data must be stored somewhere and be available …

If you want to measure how fast the clouds are moving in tech industry – yes despite all the scary stories about economy – then check this interview of Ron Conway. Ron is a uber angel investor in Silicon Valley and has perfected the art of riding a new trend.

What makes cloud computing really explosive is old cliche – it’s an idea whose time has come! Many trends are converging – Cheap bandwidth, low power consumption requirement, emerging market needs, rapidly maturing computing stack, telecoms hungry for data based revenue …