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I am in Barcelona. I just got a text message that my 3rd flight to Amsterdam got cancelled. Looking for alternatives. Do you have any ideas?

Steve Ballmer on Microsoft Cloud Strategy includes 1 surprise

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My blog would not be complete without a reference to the speech of Mr. Steve Ballmer on the strategy of cloud computing for Microsoft. The presentation was given at Washington University on March 4, 2010.

In general I is a very generic view on Cloud and SaaS with some references to Bing, Mapping, Xbox Live and Azure.

The surprise (to me) came in the Q&A: If I listened correctly Steve suggested that Azure would become available for 3rd parties. At 1:20h a question is asked about private clouds, the next question was about privacy and regulatory aspects. The answer that Steve gave indicated that somebody could obtain an "Windows Azure-Cloud" (in a container) and create his own private cloud.

Steve made it absolutely clear that "the cloud" will not be owned by 4 to 5 companies worldwide. Steve ends his speech by saying that there will be a 'customer version' available.

Back from USA & Canada

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Today I returned from a trip to Vancouver and Seattle. Lots of interesting activities on the Atos Origin Technology Operations Center and managing the IT of the Olympic Games. Also some good discussions with Microsoft in Redmond on BPOS, Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Research. Some of it is under NDA, so I cannot go into much details. Other stuff will be posted in the next couple of days.

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