After taking a much needed vacation I thought I would post an update to catch up on some notable events. Although Google has been in the cloud business as a “software as a service” (SaaS) provider with their office productivity apps, and a “platform as a service” (PaaS) provider with Google App Engine, they entered the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) field in June, firing a shot over the bow of Amazon, who for the most part is way ahead of everyone in experience and number of products. HP announced their cloud offering as did Oracle. All of the new entrants were at limited release status when they made these announcements.
