Cloud computing, by nature, requires the interaction of various entities and, as this technology grows, interactions between various companies are becoming the rule rather than the exception. Because of this, it is important to understand which parties, if any, are involved in your cloud computing services apart from your company and the vendor. Third parties can enter a cloud computing service in an outsourcing agreement.

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GMO Cloud teams from US and Japan had a great time at Cloud Expo 2011! We enjoyed a wide range of session topics and met with Cloud partners and vendors.

Cloud is not just an operations model – it is an application-centric operations model. I.T. is moving slowly away from an old server-centric model towards application-centric operations.

There is an unmistakable trend within the cloud hosting model that indicates a movement towards traditional server-based hosting models moving into self-service based cloud models. What are the factors driving this trend?

For many, cloud computing seems to be all about choice. But that choice goes beyond the choice of cloud service providers or where to run your IT workloads. Increasingly, the choice goes back to how any company’s IT department will choose to see itself.