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Short Takes: May 1, 2009

By SD Times News Team

May 1, 2009 — (Page 1 of 2)
Here comes interoperability in the cloud
CLOUD-TO-CLOUD interoperability can and will happen. As it happened with Web standards, enterprise customers will pressure cloud providers to sit down and work out standards where necessary. Cloud providers cannot realistically differentiate on price, so we will likely see extra functionality built on top of standards—boutique clouds, if you will.

That will likely make interoperability more challenging, but not impossible. It will be up to the customer to decide how much of a cloud provider's platform that they want to consume, hence how much risk that they take.

With cloud computing, platform providers are more locked into their customers due to their massive capital investments; the power dynamic has been flipped. It behooves providers to make it possible for customers to migrate parts of applications back on premise or to other clouds, such as a private cloud. Otherwise, there will be a mass exodus from the cloud. — David Worthington

It's easy to learn if you try
A GOOD FRIEND from middle school and high school started up a comedy blog a few years ago, and he is starting to utilize many social networking technologies.

This was someone who had a one-track mind for baseball and the New York Mets growing up, and the only time he would ever utilize any technology was when watching TV. Then he started blogging on his MySpace page, and eventually he bought his own domain name. And now there he is, writing up HTML code, offering Digg and a “Share This” feature that allows people to send his blog entries to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and through e-mail.

Like many folks, he learned how to do this simply by trying it out for himself and tinkering with what social networking had to offer. The layout of the blog has improved very much recently, and he offers archives and categorical breakdowns of his blogs, along with a FAQ page. The last question on the FAQ page is, “Are the questions above ones that people ask you frequently?” His answer: "No."

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