I, Cloud-i-us
It is perhaps fitting to discuss the future of cloud computing on the IBM i platform on the same day that IT and consumer electronics darling Apple is expected to launch iCloud, its fourth iteration of online services for its various iMac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices. If anyone has dibs on the iCloud name, you would think it would be IBM with its iSeries, System i, and Power Systems-IBM i platforms. But Apple ponied up the $4.5 million to buy the iCloud name from its owner and beat IBM to the punch.
Exactly what iCloud is--and isn't--remains cloaked in mystery, of course, because Apple locks things down pretty tightly. But the chatter out there on the Intertubes where Apple has found its resurrection and salvation is that iCloud will be a set of data storage services for its various styles of computers and operation systems being delivered from its brand-spanking-new, $1 billion data center in North Carolina, probably with a hub in California and maybe one each in Asia and Europe at some point.
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