Skip the number 1 #cloudcomputing tweet this week. The tweet points to a page that offers little information and tries to get you to sign up for something. While there's nothing wrong with that, numbers 2 and 3 are much richer. Number two points to an experiential blog post arguing the cloud makes you greener. It's worth a read. And tweet 3 will take to a Techrepublic post talking about feature creep and shadow IT. What's your favorite #cloudcomputing tweet this week?     

We are currently in the early stages of a period of change, the scale of which has not been seen before.

The cloud computing model of services-based computing has changed the way we not only ‘architect’, ‘structure’ and ‘plan’ software application, it has also changed the way we then, subsequently, need to ‘deploy’, ‘test’, ‘monitor’ and ‘manage’ cloud-based applications.

Now that’s a lot of nouns (actually they’re mostly verbs too) relating to the actions we take upon our applications, so what do we really mean by these terms?

The business loves SaaS appliations

Forrester estimates that by the end of the century, the SaaS market will be worth $250b. That’s up from $27b this year.  This is a huge growth.