The future of cloud computing could indeed be powered by wind energy. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), along with Clarkson University, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), HP and other private businesses, hope to demonstrate how a network of wind- and solar-powered data centers could create a new model for data center and renewable energy operations. Click here to learn more.

Is this acquisition solely driven by the ongoing patent war between Apple, Microsoft, and Google? Click here learn more about the details of this massive acquisition and its potential impact on the entire cellular phone industry.

Signs of a maturing market include acquistions, mergers, and consolitdation. In the cloud space, acquisitions are happening with great frequency.  Click here to learn about three more.

Along with a crazy week for stocks came two more significant albeit short outages from Amanzon and Akamai Technologies.  Click here to learn more.

Strong growth. Loyal customers. Efficient use of capital. Forget that the phrase "cloud computing" is even a part of this stock story. Doesn't that sound like the sort of business you want to own? Click here to learn more.

WESTPAC Banking group is using the Cloud for the provisioning of social networking services for staff as well as for Microsoft Outlook 2010, Sharepoint 20 and Lync 2010, for video and voice messaging. WESTPAC will start its 12-15 month migration to the cloud next month. Click here to learn more.

The cloud computing services debate is over.  Click here to learn why.

The money-saving aspect of cloud computing will spur its growth and provide profits for investors.  Click here to learn more.

The moves of the GSA and the USDA to clouds highlight the next battle between tech-giants Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT). The GSA chose to use Google’s cloud-based service, while the USDA chose Microsoft’s. Click here to learn more about the governments use of cloud services.

Amazon storing more than 449B objects in S3 is up substantially from Q4 2010 where it was 262 Billion objects.  Clearly overall demand for cloud services is increasing dramatically and the acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) continues to proliferate.  See the numbers by clicking here.

With IBM expecting to double revenues from cloud computing, what does it really mean.  This article highlights the key takeaways from IBM's annoucnement about doubling cloud revenue.  The big story may be the increase in the revenue mix from 65% coming from software and services to 80% a decade later. Click here to get the full story on IBM and their cloud activity.

Among Microsoft’s cloud computing incentives for partners, with its new Software Assurance Planning Services the vendor will pay qualified partners to deliver deployment services to customers of Microsoft’s private cloud, Windows Azure public cloud, SQL Server and software development. The program begins next month. The question is what will Microsoft get for the investment. Click here to learn more?

What makes RAX such an attractive short: The consensus diluted EPS estimate for 2011 is just shy of 50 cents. The estimate rises to 90-95 cents in 2013. Research reports don't show RAX capital expenditures rising meaningfully from 2011 levels. In other words, Wall Street analysts seem to believe that this capital intensive business can ramp its earnings growth without meaningfully increasing capital spending.

Overall, Q2 revenues hit US$ 4.85 billion, up 20% on the same quarter last year, while net income rose to US $546.5 million, up 28% on 2010's Q2.  Analysts suggest that EMC is benefiting from an increase demand for mid-priced storage that is helping to offset slower sales of more expensive technology. Click here to get the details. Curated by Kyle Brown.

Click here to learn what the new CEO has in mind for Verizon in the cloud computing space. Curated by Kyle Brown.