Growth of migration to the cloud by SMB's a major trend to watch.  Click on Microsoft to see this strong growth article. Curated by Kyle Brown. 

You ain't seen nothing yet. The Cambrian explosion of next software as a service companies hitting the market is like the Internet explosion in 96-97...EXCEPT these companies require 98% LESS capital and have a business model that works! Click on Microsoft to read this article. Curated by Tobin Smith.

This weeks rap sheet from AlwaysOn is always worth your review. Click on AlwaysOn to read the rap sheet. Curated by Kyle Brown.

Google beat the analysts numbers and spent a whopping $890 million on capital expenditures.

“We consider Abiquo’s inclusion in the Gartner Cool Vendors report as further confirmation that our vision of cloud computing is resonating with customers and the top minds in cloud,” said Wendy Perilli, Abiquo vice president of global marketing.  The trend of customer acceptance continues, a trend to watch.  Not all awards are meaningless. Curated by Kyle Brown

Cloud-computing stocks are once again in focus as several sell-side analysts are out with comments today on various companies with cloud exposure. The fear of another stock bubble pops up again as analysts try to get a handle on buy or sell. Click on CRM to read this article. Curated by Kyle Brown.

Share prices on the rise in the cloud computing space.  Equinix is among the winners.  More to come...Click on Equinix to read this article and see why. Curated by Kyle Brown.

"Managed applications services save organizations time, money and resources associated with deploying and managing today's complex technologies and applications, freeing up IT departments to align their strategic initiatives with their core businesses," said Brady Reiter, General Manager, Managed Application Services, NaviSite.

 VMware offers live migration which others do not offer. Live migration provides the ability to move operating systems and applications from one server to another while they are running.

While Terremark will remained based in Miami as a separate operating unit, Verizon said it will pitch customers on the combined companies' services in the fields of virtualization, managed hosting, application management, storage and cloud computing services.  This should be good news for other cloud companies in the hosting space for cloud solutions.

Gabriel Kaplan writes a great overview of Amazon's dominance in the cloud computing space and the potential impact it will have on its stock and on the industry as a whole.  Powerful writing and deep discussion of the numbers. Curated by Kyle S. Brown.

Instead of simply reacting to trends, Amazon either sets them or executes land grabs so strong it effectively replaces the previous trendsetter.  This is a must read article on the

THINKstrategies Jeff Kaplan looks in detail at new HP CEO Leo Apotheker's unveiling of HP's cloud strategy: providing "connectivity" to the cloud to move "everyone on."  Well done and worth reading. Curated by Kyle S. Brown.  Click on HP to see the article.

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