This document discusses the growing landscape of cloud computing and some of the challenges still facing its adoption. It notes that major tech companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are expanding their cloud offerings and capabilities. However, fully realizing the benefits of cloud computing will require addressing issues regarding where workloads run, ensuring scalability across multiple cores, integrating legacy and cloud systems, and providing platforms and components to help solve business problems.

1. Cloud Computing: The Road Ahead Bob Warfield

2. You Are Here… Trying to Go Here It Ain’t Easy!

3. Things Are Moving Fast! Amazon Announces Gold and Silver Support Plans for Amazon’s Web Services Google Announces AppEngine Intuit Launches QuickBase Cloud Platform Pervasive Releases Data Integrator 9 Microsoft SQL Services: DB in the Clouds Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz Blogs About the World’s Largest Supercomputer Cloud HP’s Upline Having Some Downtime EMC’s Joe Tucci says, “There already is an EMC storage cloud.” Salesforce.com and Google Have Changed The Game Again

4. Why Go Cloud Computing?

5. In Some Ways, Life Was Easier Before Clouds (B.C.) We Need a New Ecosystem In the Cloud World

6. What Problems Are We Trying to Solve? The New Cloud Stack…

7. Platforms: A Starting Point for Creating Software

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