IDC’s New IT Cloud Services Forecast: 2009-2013

A blog entry of IDG-Analyst Frank Gens on IDC’s new Cloud study. (Including some facts and figure of the report.)
http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=543
Just one citation: “The five year growth outlook remains strong, with a five-year annual growth rate of 26% – over six times the rate of traditional IT offerings.”

SAP-Hosting-Geschäft geht an T-Systems

“T-Systems hat SAPs europäisches Hosting-Geschäft übernommen und wird künftig die Softwareanwendungen von fast 90 SAP-Kunden in seinen Rechenzentren betreuen.” Nach weiteren Presseangaben sollen die Angebote auch um eine “verbrauchsorientierte Abrechnung” erweitert werden. Sounds to me like Cloud Computing…
http://www.silicon.de/mittelstand/0,39038986,41502691,00/sap_hosting_geschaeft+geht+an+t_systems.htm

Why Private Cloud Will Make IT Think Like Wal-Mart

http://www.cio.com/article/500096/Why_Private_Cloud_Will_Make_IT_Think_Like_Wal_Mart

I.B.M. to Help Clients Fight Cost and Complexity

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/technology/business-computing/15blue.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
“The information technology infrastructure is under stress already, and the data flood is just accelerating,” said Samuel J. Palmisano, I.B.M.’s chief executive. “We’ve decided that how you solve that starts by organizing technology around the workload.”

New York Times: Data Center Overload

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14search-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

McKinsey Report: Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing

http://uptimeinstitute.org/content/view/353/319

Amazons BI-on-the-fly using MapReduce-as-a-service brings huge cloud data crunching to the masses

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2888

Envisioning the Cloud (marketspace whitepaper)

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

A maturity model for cloud computing

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10122295-240.html
http://blogs.sun.com/downstream/entry/an_evolving_maturity_model_for
http://rodos.haywood.org/2008/12/maturity-model-for-cloud-computing-2009.html
Cloud Maturity Models don’t make sense:
www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/cloud_maturity.html
http://www.zapthink.com/news.html?id=2753

The Enterprise Cloud

http://jroller.com/MasterMark/entry/the_enterprise_cloud

Google Cloud Economics, The Quota

http://www.elasticvapor.com/2008/12/google-cloud-economics-quota.html

Three questions that need answers before enterprises will go to the Cloud

“There are software tools like CIRBA and VMware Capacity Planner that help customers figure out which applications will play nicely in virtualized environments, but to my knowledge nothing of the sort exists in the cloud world.”
http://johngannonblog.com/2008/09/29/three-questions-enterprises-need-to-answer-before-moving-to-cloud/?referer=sphere_related_content/

GoGrid: Ten Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009

http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/12/02/ten-cloud-computing-predictions-for-2009/

The Shape of the Cloud

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

The Economist: Cloud Computing Special

http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411864&fsrc=rss
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12471098&fsrc=rss
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411854&fsrc=rss
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411838&fsrc=rss
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411896&fsrc=rss
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411908&fsrc=rss
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411920&fsrc=rss
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411882&fsrc=rss