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Ballmer: Moving closer to the cloud


Monday, September 29 2008 05:04 PM

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gives his definition of cloud computing, which is moving information outside of the firewall and putting it on storage systems that are shared with other companies. Ballmer adds that Microsoft will offer more details about the company's cloud strategy, "Red Dog", in six weeks at its developer conference.

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