Cloud Computing News Highlights: SOPA, Forrester’s End of Year forecast, Open Source Technologies, Cloud Technology Changes IT Roles, Splunk, Electronic Medical Records and the AMA.

A recent CompTIA report, SpiceWorks Voice of IT: State of SMB IT, shows how SMB organizations are adapting to business growth with virtual servers.

As MaidPro grew to 120 locations nationwide, they adapted business software to emerging cloud technology by utilizing virtual servers to host in-house software.

Cloud Computing News Highlights: Hubspan Predictions, Mobile Cloud Connections, Healthcare Cloud Problems, Salesforce radian6 Social Marketing Cloud, NIST Cloud Roadmap

Healthcare industry adoption of cloud computing continues to grow as amounts of data and storage needs increases.

Cloud Computing News Highlights: A Social Network for the Cloud, BNA to Host State Tax Seminar on Cloud Business, The Cyber Workforce and the Cloud

Tech site SFGate featured a list of best practices tips that can help any business stay on top of their cloud based network and hosting infrastructure.

Award-winning writer Randy Bias talks about not only what cloud computing is, but what it isn’t in the Cloudscaling Blog.

ConnectEdu implemented a cloud computing strategy that saved them upfront costs on applications and decreased their internal IT expenses by 80%.

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.