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Joe Coyle, CTO of global integrator Capgemini, sees a lot of cloud pitches from all the major technology vendors -- and God knows they all have a cloud strategy. Here's what he thinks of the current state of the market.

Megaupload Type Shutdowns and Patriot Act Are Killing Cloud Storage

As the US Congress debates SOPA/PIPA, the EU looks warily across the ocean and sees more rigid legislation that could be layered on top of the Patriot Act -- and the EU is beginning to think it may make sense to create its own local cloud free from US[...]

Alastair Mitchell is chief executive and co-founder of Huddle. Frustrated by existing enterprise technology's inability to help people work together, when collaboration apps in our social lives Read more...

Dropbox is a very popular file syncing and online backup service. But I'll show you four more services that are the great Dropbox alternatives that you should really try out.

Dropbox vs. SugarSync: A Synchronized Duel - SmallCloudBuilder

Dropbox vs. Box.net - SmallCloudBuilder

Microsoft Office 365 is the first and only major cloud-based platform to offer leading data privacy and security standards for customers in the EU and US.

It's often assumed that doing things "in the cloud" is cheaper than doing them on your own hardware, but this isn't always the case. Sometimes, Moore's Law means that renting transistors in the cloud is more expensive than owning them yourself. Wired[...]