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It was interesting to find out about apple getting involved in the cloud. "Apple introduced CloudKit, a new set of integrated in the iOS SDK designed to make life easier for developers of mobile applications by eliminating the need to write code on the server side." It clames that with this "developers will no longer need to rely on third party service like Microsoft Azure, Google or Amazon Cloud Platform Web Services."
Amazon has another option for enterprises that want to share and store files online. Amazon Web Services has opened it's Zocalo service to general availability. http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/amazons-file-sharing-service-zocalo-now-generally-available-249351
This article i found on WIred.com defined Cloud computing as "Services where anyone can build and run their own online software without setting up their own hardware" It talked about how Cloud computing continues to innovate and new products and services are being created. The big complaint was that when you are with a vendor you have to do everything their way.
This was from a Magazine that i had never heard of before called Service Technology. It talked in detail about the past, present and future of cloud computing. The "brief history" was partially interesting. According to the article there was "roots" going back to the 1960s. Douglas F. Parkhill made predictions about the computer industry that are in effect today. http://www.servicetechmag.com/I83/0414-3