Sunday, March 15, 2009

Clouds Coalesce in Boston

Today's Globe column is about the cloud computing scene in Boston, including CloudSwitch, and a new investment General Catalyst is making in Good Data.

An opening quote from EMC exec Chuck Hollis:

    "Cloud computing will change how we do IT, end-to-end, over the next five years," says Chuck Hollis, vice president of global marketing at EMC, the Hopkinton-based storage firm. "It's like in the early 20th century, if you were a manufacturer, you had to build your own power plant. But eventually, you had the option to buy your electricity from the grid, and let someone else worry about how it was generated. Corporate data centers are going to have that kind of choice, too."

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