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Public cloud acceptance by the Enterprise means more not fewer challenges... Today in London Gartner held day one of its two day Data Centre, Infrastrucuture and Operations Management Summit. Here is what we learned this morning: 1) Public cloud acceptance by enterprise means more not fewer challenges 2) Asked if security breaches will slow public cloud adoption the consensus was that the answer was no.

Society confronts educational change in an odd, entirely counter intuitive manner. On one hand we acknowledge that education can and should do a better job of preparing our children for the future while on the other we cling to the models of education that we knew. This led educational writer Will Richardson to state that 'the biggest barrier to rethinking schooling in response to the changing worldscape is our own experience in schools'. Our understandings of what school should be like and our imaginings of what school could be like are so clouded by this experience that even the best evidence for change is overlooked or mistrusted.

This new web2.0 web based presentation creation site takes advantage of cloud storage.  It reminds me of Prezi and the iPad app Haiku Deck.

Where the networking firm is investing its $1bn over the next two years. Cisco is planning to invest $1bn over the next two years and add 30 partners to expand the reach of its Intecloud ecosystem globally. CBR tells you 10 things you need to know about it.

Always have your music, photos, and documents with you on your computers, NetBook, and iPhone.

Enter your twitter user name to see a tag cloud from the bios of your twitter flock.

Create tag clouds in custom shapes.

Create a visualization of data comparing 2 different views or even a word cloud. 

Worldwide educators you are invited to join my #edtech20 presentation and all the sessions in #CO11 - free annual live online conference on wiziq http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/443860-co11-free-project-in-the-clouds-for-teachers-worldwide

Similar tool to Wordle, but with added advantage of custom shapes AND actual actively linked tags.

Similar tool to Wordle, but with added advantage of custom shapes AND actual actively linked tags.

Quintura for Kids is a visual and intuitive search engine for children">

Precipitate for Mac OS 10.4 and greater lets you search for an launch information you have stored on the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac including: Google Docs (and apps accounts), Google Bookmarks, and Picasa Web Albums.

OpenStack is still in a dynamic evolution, but is getting more serious by the day. OpenStack needs to be simplified We heard a lot of comments about the barrier of entry for OpenStack being high because, being open source software, it can be a steep learning curve by nature.

Analysis: Was phishing or brute force responsible for the attack? Both businesses and consumers are increasingly reliant on services such as Apple's iCloud, which has been implicated in the celebrity picture attack. Companies are now using it to store intellectual property as well as information about its customers, and this makes it a prime target for hackers.

Analysis: How the Lord of the Flies publisher moved 8 terrabytes of data to the cloud.