"Hardly a day goes by, it seems, without some announcement of a new cloud computing offering or initiative.
And [this] Friday[, August 1, 2008] is no exception with I.B.M. declaring it plans to build a $360-million data center in North Carolina and another big one in Tokyo, both for delivering cloud computing services to corporate customers. This follows the announcement of a joint cloud research program from Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard and Intel on Tuesday [as blogged in NY Times: The Virtuous Competition in Cloud Computing Research]."
For the full article written by Steve Lohr, go to Commercializing the Cloud.