We're now at a point where all things "cloud" are sure to be the darlings of the dance in technology circles.  The nice folks over at ReadWriteWeb reference the Gartner 2010 Hype Cycle report  and concisely sum up what many of us already knew.  Cloud based computing is dancing right up there at the peak of inflated expectations. 

Based on what you read online, cloud computing will solve all of your IT woes, cure cancer, stop global warming, and iron your favorite dress shirt (light starch please!).  But how long until the cloud rolls over that peak and starts its downward slide?  Let's give it a little nudge shall we?

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Dave Bouwman and myself are honored to have been asked by the folks at Directions Magazine to participate in a webinar on how to successfully leverage ArcGIS Server in the Amazon Cloud.  We'll be collaborating with ESRI and Amazon to deliver a webinar on October 28, 2010.  ESRI and Amazon will provide the tech background while Dave and I will walk through the business case and a start-to-finish implementation we did for a client. 

Webinar info is posted here. (You'll need to scroll down the page a bit)

Register for the webinar over here.

Please consider joining us.