Catch up on cloud computing and Web 2.0 news in this digest:
BladeWatch reports:
It will take five to 10 years for cloud computing to become mainstream, but it is likely enterprises will always stay in hybrid environments using cloud and on-premises solutions.
That was the view of a number of leading industry executives at a cloud computing open day hosted today by BT.
Chris Lindsay, general manager of Business Applications at BT, told IT PRO: “No doubt, in 10 years cloud will be the dominant technology for businesses moving forward, but there will still be elements of hybrid environments.”
Seattle PI notes:
Windows Live Messenger led Microsoft’s Web properties in capturing 14.5 percent of total time spent online in September worldwide, handily beating Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other sites, according to analysis firm comScore.
In fact, people spent 36 percent more time on Microsoft sites than they did on sites owned by second-place Google, and 57 percent more time than on Yahoo sites. That’s out of an estimated 27 billion hours spent online globally in September (excluding public computers and smartphones), comScore said.
Windows Live Messenger accounted for nearly 70 percent of the 3.9 billion hours people spent on Microsoft Web properties, the firm said.
People spent 2.5 billion hours on Google sites, 1.2 billion hours of which were spent on YouTube. Facebook was the fastest-growing property, its share of attention jumping 193 percent over September 2008, according to comScore.
The San Francisco Chronicle writes:
At a conference last month in San Francisco, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts credited an employee’s use of Twitter with helping to change the cable giant’s corporate culture toward customer service.
Yet a recent survey of corporate technology executives by Robert Half Technology of Menlo Park found that 54 percent of companies prohibit employees from using social-media sites while on the job.
Experts say those companies could stifle the creativity of employees who are using Twitter, Facebook and other networking sites to help their companies.
CNet News reports:
Microsoft released on Thursday a new position paper, “Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era: A Microsoft Perspective,” that includes information about the remote storage and processing of personal information.
Privacy and security concerns continue to be a primary argument that cloud naysayers use against storing data and applications on the Internet. Big IT vendors and service providers like Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard will sooner or later be forced to take the cloud seriously or risk missing out on the whole next wave of IT consumption. And their large enterprise customers will expect them to offer cloud services with the appropriate levels of privacy and security measures in line with their business needs.
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