Comments on: Cloud Forecast 2009: Replay Now Available http://cloudpul.se/posts/cloud-forecast-2009-replay-now-available Research, advisory and consulting services for cloud computing and big data Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:59:14 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan Nichols http://cloudpul.se/posts/cloud-forecast-2009-replay-now-available#comment-13 Ryan Nichols Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-13 Hi Sam– I feel like your alter ego here, but we predict exactly the opposite trend for private clouds…. at the end of day, a private cloud is just an expensive data center with a fancy name. The idea that somehow companies can use “private cloud” technology to offer their employees web services similar to Google or Amazon will lead to massive disappointment. The real news: the vast majority of companies shouldn’t need to worry about operating any sort of data center anymore, cloud-like or not.

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http://www.appirio.com/blog/2009/01/2009-prediction-rise-and-fall-of.php

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