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HP has significantly elevated its efforts to become an indispensable full-service supplier to cloud computing aspirants, especially telecommunications, mobile and Internet service providers. At Software Universe in Hamburg, Germany, HP this month announced three new offerings designed to enable cloud providers and enterprises to securely lower barriers to adoption and accelerate the time-to-benefit of cloud-delivered services. Timing here is critical.

Giving Telcos a Ladder to the Cloud

I am stoked about Apple’s acquisition of Lala. Why? First, iTunes users might actually get to listen to an entire song during a preview rather than just the old-school 30-second clip. That potential new option for iTunes is reason enough to be thrilled. But there’s so much more to Lala. Lala, on its own, is a browser-based streaming music service that lets you listen to full-length songs once, and if you buy them for just 10 US cents, you can listen to them forever — while streaming them online. If you want to download the song for your iPod or MP3 player, it’s another 79 cents.

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New Possibilities Forming as Lala’s Puffy White Cloud Rolls In

Plenty of industry observers are already issuing their predictions for 2010, but I think it is worth taking a look back at the past year’s events to see how quickly the Software as a Service and cloud computing marketplace is evolving. So, following are 10 events that I consider bellwethers of the rapid evolution process, which could be important indicators of the future direction of the SaaS and cloud computing industry. No. 1: Salesforce.com surpasses $1 billion in revenue.

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Top 10 Cloud Computing Flashpoints of 2009

For years, IT departments have had full control over their own infrastructure — for better and worse — and are naturally uncomfortable with anything that prevents them from being the sole resource for their own infrastructure. They have been trained to maintain tight control because of the complexity of their own environment — a positive trait that has helped to assure timely and accurate delivery, but limits their ability to accept change.

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Top 4 Reasons CISOs and CTOs Fear the Cloud

As the general notion of cloud computing continues to permeate the collective IT imagination, an offshoot vision holds that multiple business-to-business players could use the cloud approach to build extended business process ecosystems. It’s sort of like a marketplace in the cloud on steroids, on someone else’s servers, perhaps to engage on someone’s business objectives, and maybe even satisfy some customers along the way. It’s really a way to make fluid markets adapt at Internet speed, at low cost, to business requirements, as they come and go.

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Nothing New Under the Business Commerce Cloud?