A Cloudy Forecast

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It's the end of college graduation season, and across the country recent graduates are expected to listen to countless successful people as they give their parting advice in commencement speeches. 

Lender Processing Services (LPS) Q1 2013 Earnings Call April 25, 2013 10:00 am ET Executives Nancy Murphy - Vice President of Investor Relations Hugh R. Harris - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Thomas L. Schilling - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Analysts Carter Malloy - Stephens Inc., Research Division

We recently noticed that Amazon was hiring an unusually large number of salespeople for Amazon Web Services, its enterprise arm that rents computing power over the Internet to other businesses.

By Dana Blankenhorn: Clouds are an immensely over-hyped area of tech right now. Everyone claims to be a cloud, have a cloud, let you make a cloud, enable cloud in some way. But not every tech company really has a cloud. And most of what passes for a cloud from most vendors isn't really cloud at all, just a reworking of existing enterprise product lines.

Jeffrey M. Kaplan submits: I’ve been suggesting for a while that the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry is moving into a new stage in which inter-enterprise applications are becoming the focus. At the same time, the lines of demarcation between software, business and information services are blurring. Two announcements Tuesday exemplify these trends.

Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: Cloud computing saves energy. How do we know this?