Clouds Hang over Cloud Cuckoo Land

Considering which side its probably-now-billion-dollar bread is buttered on, Amazon doesn't like private clouds, nevertheless by bringing Eucalyptus into the fold it has conceded that it has to tolerate hybrid clouds to get more enterprise business. It's betting that over time the enterprise will get so accustomed to Amazon they'll abandon their currently safer private clouds.

The de facto of cloud computing platforms

In its attempt to position CloudStack to become the "de facto of cloud computing platforms," Citrix said it would become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

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