Rule 1 for migration to Cloud Computing – Get the definition right.
IT industry, like fashion industry, has an absolute Darwinian need for inventing (and then betting farm on) new trends. Cloud computing, with all it’s advantages and disadvantages, is on it’s way to become a must-play IT trend.
George Zachary of Charles River Venture, calls this a new dotcom. He should know, he must be getting business plans by the dozens. I won’t be surprised if half of those PowerPoint pitches are full of replace-all of ‘Web2.0/SaaS’ with ‘Cloud …

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 …