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Microsoft CEO Highlights Impact of Cloud Computing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered a keynote at IndiMix 2010 that was centered on the topic of cloud computing. As mentioned in this Information Week report, Ballmer said the cloud creates a new set of responsibilities, including privacy, security and reliability.

"The cloud will change the way you look at hardware. Today, you write applications designed for servers keeping in mind the deployment environment. In the cloud era, you will write applications that are designed to scale and have the capability to be deployed immediately. The cloud will make hardware that does not look like a server, but a data center that comes in a box and has processors, storage and networking integrated with each other."