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Some “applications” are misnomers of a sort. “Oddly enough, I’m not sure that true cloud innovation is happening quite yet at the application level,” said Charles King, principal with Pund-IT. Still, there are Web 2.0-style online communities and collaboration tools that are supporting some intriguing means for users to seamlessly access and share information.
“Cloud computing is not magical, but it is more economical, more easily scaled and more easily managed,” said Lance Walley, chief executive officer of Engine Yard, a hosting and infrastructure support company for Ruby on Rails applications. It’s getting more so, too. That’s because it’s so practical, more applications are sure to appear every year.
Pity the Patent and Trademark Office examining attorney who gave Dell the green light
propelling its trademark application for the term “cloud computing” toward the home stretch this summer. That particular individual was obviously unaware that the phrase had become, over the course of a year, one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry.
Amazon pioneered the magic in e-commerce by allowing people to shop for books and music online. Its latest business moves, however, have involved building an infrastructure that allows companies to weave their own Internet spells for customers via online storage, Web services and cloud computing.
Microsoft on Wednesday took the wrapper off its new subscription service, formerly code-named “Albany.” The company had previously been operating a beta version of the service. The service, Microsoft Equipt, combines applications from the software maker’s Office productivity suite and its Live OneCare, an all-in-one security and PC management service, as well as several applications from Windows Live.
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