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 …

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 …