Clash of the clouds.

The article discusses a controversy concerning cloud computing. A manifesto supported by International Business Machines and others calls for open standards and portability of data and applications among different providers of cloud services. However firms such as Amazon.com and Google, which have e...

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Publicado en:	Economist Vol. 390; no. 8625; pp. 66 - 68
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Economist Newspaper Limited 4/4/2009
Materias:	Cloud computing Distributed computing International Business Machines Corp. Amazon.com Inc. Google Inc.
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Sumario:	The article discusses a controversy concerning cloud computing. A manifesto supported by International Business Machines and others calls for open standards and portability of data and applications among different providers of cloud services. However firms such as Amazon.com and Google, which have established significant cloud operations, have their objections.