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Does GoGrid opening their cloud API bring new business opportunities ?

GoGrid announces its Cloudcenter Application Programming Interface (API) under a share-alike Creative Commons license. This allows developers, system integrators among others to copy, modify, distribute and republish their cloud computing API with attribution to GoGrid. This is a big move from GoGrid. However, this was anticipated because of the intense competition from Amazon [...]

Why enterprises wouldn’t embrace private clouds ?

James Urquhart of the wisdom of clouds, a popular blog, presents an interesting argument for private clouds. His argument for private clouds cites three reasons which are mentioned below:

“Disruptive online technologies have almost always had an enterprise analog. The Internet itself had the Intranet: the use of HTTP and TCP/IP protocols to deliver [...]