Cloud is now Mainstream, MJ Hologram

I was part of starting the first cloud computing company in Canada in 2009.  The term "cloud" was not in mainstream use in Canada then, though it had been around in US for about 2 years.  I was part of a cyber-infrastructure/High Performance Computing/Grid/eScience community and first started calling it "pooled resources".

We built a cloud in Alberta and had revenue and were starting to build a site in Ontario, but we could not raise growth capital and had to fold the company in the Fall of 2011.

Cloud is so mainstream now, that pretty much all enterprises now have cloud (public or private) on their roadmap and it is the way software, data, storage, compute etc. is being delivered.  e.g. so much content is now on YouTube and Netflix that there are no longer any DVD/video rental places.

Now, totally unrelated, there was a music "CD" launched by Michael Jackson yesterday even though he died 5 years ago and there was a hologram of MJ singing and dancing to one of the new songs.

Here it is:

http://youtu.be/jDRTghGZ7XU