Linthicum tops cloud retweets

Hmmm, I've seen this five cloud trends Gartner retweet before. It points to a press release that hypes a Gartner report entitled  "Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Your Cloud Strategy Through 2015." There's nothing too startling in the press release: Gartner tries to dispel "confusion and misunderstanding" perpetrated by vendors. My sense is the CIOs are not all that confused about the cloud - effective deployments are the issue.

My favorite cloud retweet this week is number 5 from Infoworld blogger and Blue Mountain Labs CTO David S. Linthicum, whose cloud tweets are consistently rewteeted a lot. This tweet has very practical advice, such as starting out on the public cloud with a tactical problem. Number three should be left off this list - the link does not work. 

1. @gartner_inc Gartner: Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Cloud Strategy Through 2015 http://t.co/iN585sdI

 (96 retweets)

2. @neeliekroeseu I want #cloud computing to happen not "to" Europe - but "with" Europe http://t.co/CdjIg5U1 #cloud_eif

 (32 retweets)

3. @gonzalezcarmen 11 Tips for Successful #Cloud Computing Adoption [@CAinc booth @CloudExpo] ▸ http://t.co/uKlb273Q #BigData @AndiMann http://t.co/EStcWPus

(13 retweets)

4. @nimsoft Gartner outlines 5 cloud computing trends that will affect #cloud strategy through 2015: http://t.co/6AqwAB9v

(13 retweets)

5. @davidlinthicum 3 best practices for your cloud computing first-timers http://t.co/VHFujfWa

 (12 retweets)

6. @hpnews "HP receives Army cloud computing contract" - @AP http://t.co/NxiJqFpU ...press release here: http://t.co/Dj2xXQsT $HPQ #hp

 (11 retweets)

7. @michaelwolf New report from @GigaOMPro puts the total cloud computing market at $159 billion by 2014: http://t.co/3yvTNrD7 #cloud #cloudcomputing

 (9 retweets)

8. @wyseemea 9 Trends That Impact The Future Of Mobile Cloud Computing | http://t.co/7u8FYzIH - Cloud Computing Community http://t.co/eqPmGiLE

 (9 retweets)

9. @ala_techsource The Reality of the Cloud: Implications of Cloud Computing for Mobile Library Technologies http://t.co/6vn9vCK4

 (6 retweets)

10. @thecloudnetwork #Cloud #News Cloud Computing and Cloud Services Stocks Rise 26% In 1Q 2012 - TalkinCloud (blog): Cloud Computing..

As usual, our note on the methodology here: We leverage Topsy to determine the most retweeted (popular) Tweets and then filter through for what we think is the best information for CIOs. Numbers 9 and 10 did not have retweets, but were added for relevance. 

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