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The Cloud Computing Portal is a community edited database that makes the cloud vendor selection process easier, by helping you find a cloud provider who supports the environment you need. It actually has Cloud Vendor Proliferation charts that show how this new type of service is growing. The start date was May 1st and 57 vendors had registered by May 9th.

In "HP weds cloud..." , Hewlett-Packard has apparently outlined their approach to cloud computing. They are merging their high-performance computing unit with the Web 2.0 and cloud computing infrastructure businesses. This is being called the "Scalability Computing Initiative"

Google’s Head In The Clouds

A short news interview on the IBM Blue Cloud .

May 27, 2008 See NY Times article, Cloud Computing: So You Don’t Have to Stand Still

In this video, IBM and Google announce their joint cloud computing initiative. As I said in my earlier post, Google and IBM have teamed up to provide a "Google-like" infrastructure. Built on top of IBM technology, this is an open platform designed to support global collaboration in the design and development of enterprise applications that can leverage cloud computing concepts.

First Software as a Service - SaaS... Then Hardware as a Service - HaaS... Now, Middleware as a Service - MaaS? GigaSpaces' CMO Geva Perry will be presenting on middleware virtualization at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, June 23-24, in New York City. Geva believes that in order to achieve the full potential of "cloud computing" we need a broader definition of virtualization. He is pushing a complete de-coupling of the logical components of an application (represented by the software stack) and the physical resources. In the case of middleware, whether it is data access, messaging or the business logic, the physical location of the resources should not matter to the developer and to the end user. He will explore these thoughts in his presentation propose a solution, including a live demo. For more see The Missing Piece in Cloud Computing: Middleware Virtualization