What Does that Cloud Look Like to You?

It turned out to be a very Cloud-themed, meeting-oriented 3 weeks for me. First of all, Cisco, EMC and VMware (with a little help from Intel) announced a set of cooperative efforts aimed at accelerating the uptake of large-scale, virtualized computing. Then EMC had an Industry Analyst Meeting that was very much focused on the "Private Cloud." Finally, at Microsoft's PDC in Los Angeles, Microsoft's Cloud services (Azure) was at the center of much of the discussion. I'll talk about each of these briefly in this issue. They each see the Cloud through their own unique lens. Each is quite interesting (IMHO).