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We first went from reserving cloud capacity to securing capacity on-demand, and then we even started to bid for unused capacity in spot market - all in an effort to decrease cost in the cloud. Can we take this one step further? Instead of us bidding for capacity, wouldn't it be interesting if we can get providers to bid for our demand?

The cloud is commonly envisaged as a utilitarian service, enabling those companies using it to experience ease of access to data in various accounts, homogenisation of such accounts and so on. This utilitarian approach has, broadly speaking, meant that some cloud services lose a certain personal element with their clients.

Retailers and marketers often face the challenge of getting coupons, offers and promotions delivered at the perfect time and in the right context to their customers.

Users are unsure of – or have very different views on – what constitutes a private cloud, which makes any survey about the subject rather meaningless.

Customers are quickly reinventing how they choose to learn about new products, keep current on existing ones, and stay loyal to those brands they most value.

"Back in the day", CIOs, CTOs and IT directors were the injection point for technology acceptance into the business. Now, that injection point has been turned into a fire hose.

In recent years the world of gaming has seen a shift in the way in which games are played and therefore the way they need to be developed. In 2002 Xbox released the Xbox Live system, allowing gamers all around the world to connect via the internet and play games together. Since then all of the other consoles have caught up and now provide the same functionality.

Whether your data is stored in the cloud, on your desktop or on your server, you should be backing it up at least daily.