Corporate Cloud Computing...

An interesting article about cloud computing for businesses and an opportunity for ISVs
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411882
Mandy
http://www.microsoftempower.com
Microsoft Partner Programme

Re : Corporate Cloud Computing

Unfortuantely that article is available to subscribers only, and you have to pay for a subscription. When we were researching a cloud computing network for our business recently we found some interesting videos at www.guruonline.tv/it that i'd recommend

Re : Corporate Cloud Computing

Microsoft are staking a lot on cloud computing being the future: I believe Steve Ballmer is over here talking about it a lot this week...

Re : Corporate Cloud Computing

Cloud computing... has anyone addressed the really big issue as to what happens when network connections go down, as they invariably do?

Does the whole world grind to a halt and no-one can do anything?

Or when the servers that hold all the information in the cloud get hacked and everything is deleted?

At least with storing a lot of stuff on your own machine you can still get on with your work if the connection goes down or you are in an area where you cannot get connected for whatever reason...