Cloud Computing Moving Behind Hype To Real-World Use Midsize and larger enterprises are already deploying cloud computing, sometimes openly and sometimes on the sly, as the concept of working in the cloud is starting to move beyond the hype stage. Cloud computing is still in its early stages, but adoption of the technology is coming fast, according to a panel on cloud computing held at the Nth Generation Technical Symposium, a three-day customer event held this week by Nth Generation, a San Diego-based solution provider. IT managers from nearly 200 midsize and larger enterprise customers, mainly from Southern California, interacted with a panel of executives from six vendors working with solution providers to build cloud infrastructures

Moving to the cloud: Big savings, but plan ahead Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company’s data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate. “We had already done significant virtualizing of our servers and couldn’t cram anything more onto our data center infrastructure