This was the headline which the FT reported Ray Ozzie's announcement of the Azure Services Platform at the Los Angeles PDC earlier in the week.The Cloud Computing and Services Platform Diagram More on why partners should mug up on BPOS and Azure over on the TRUMPET.

Also I notice that the Economist this month ran an article on the behemoth buildings that are housing these cloud computing innovations - "Where the Cloud Meets the Ground". Michael Manos, head of Microsoft Datacenter Group and an enthusiastic supporter of Scotland's nascent mega-datacenter industry, is quoted following the opening of Microsoft's Northlake, Chicago containerised datacenter.

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