(Developers’) Perceptions of Cloud Service Providers (by EDC)

“Perceptions of Cloud Service Providers – Who’s Who and Where in the Clouds

A poll of the perceptions of software developers on the major players in the Cloud computing space.”

http://www.evansdata.com/research/market_alerts_start.php
Free for registred users.

Envisioning the Cloud (marketspace whitepaper)

PDF: http://www.marketspaceadvisory.com/cloud/Envisioning-the-Cloud.pdf

Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/web-20-and-cloud-computing.html
Response “What O’Reilly gets wrong about the cloud”:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/10/what_tim_oreill.php
and
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/10/further_thought.php

The Shape of the Cloud

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/27/Shape-of-the-Cloud

Windows and SQL Server on Amazon’s Cloud

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39497201,00.htm

Microsoft to launch “Windows Cloud”

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39497208,00.htm

Is Your Cloud Opaque or Transparent?

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/08/04/3512.aspx