Partly Cloudy Again

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This article about Microsoft and Google approaches to the Cloud are pumping blood again, together with this new Seal of Approval: “IBM wants to corner the market on cloud computing, from providing the physical servers that make up a cloud to offering services for those unwilling to build out their own. Today it announced plans to move further into the fog by creating a kind of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for cloud computing. IBM calls it the Resilient Cloud Validation program. Big Blue hopes to work with cloud providers to offer a program that reassures businesses that a cloud doesn’t go down often as well as helping answer other questions that keep businesses from trusting in the cloud model“.

Last Friday I was giving a talk at the Science Week (Semana de la Ciencia) and I believe there is quite a lot to come. Let´s see.

Update: Yet two interesting articles