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Linux Foundation Gazes Skyward, Identifies Shapes and Trends in Cloud Computing

The Linux Foundation has published a general overview of how Linux is increasingly powering cloud computing. The short document, written by the Linux Foundation's Amanda McPherson, examines in a very accessible manner what cloud computing is, where it began, how Linux became one of its pillars, where it is headed, and how Linux is getting it there.

What makes this particular paper appealing is its cloudlike nature -- it's a light, quick, breezy overview of why Linux has been, and will continue to be, a standard that drives the cloud computing sector. It's an easy, not overly-technical read, and while IT professionals and administrators wouldn't necessarily find it bursting with new revelations on the industry, it would certainly be worth pointing out to the non-technical supervisors and decision-makers within their organizations.

It's easy to see the value in highly technical documents that detail the inner workings of complex layers of software interaction. General overviews and broad surveys of the general landscape such as this, however, are just as valuable -- and perhaps moreso. Authoritative, but not overtly technical papers take some of the pressure of explaining the worth and benefits of a given technology from systems administrators (who are often already stretched overly thin) and allow them concentrate on making those technologies deliver all that they truly offer.

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