This is the fourth in a series of podcasts that were recorded at Cloud Connect 2012 in Santa Clara.

In this twenty minute podcast, Tom Lounibos, CEO and Founder of SOASTA, shares insights on building applications that take advantage of cloud infrastructure services. He also touches on the intersection of cloud computing and mobile, along with the most recent innovations for testing these environments.

This is the second in a series of podcasts that were recorded at Cloud Connect 2012 in Santa Clara.

In this twelve minute podcast, Randy Bias, CTO and Founder of CloudScaling, gives his perspective on building open clouds for cloud-ready applications.

Just like model years for new cars, annual technology predictions are arriving earlier and earlier. For cloud computing, the predictions for 2012 started roIling in during October -- before Halloween, perhaps to make them extra scary!  The rate of new predictions seemed to peak toward the end of November and compilations of predictions from multiple sources was a popular way to showcase them during December.  A few new predictions are still rolling in... after all, it is just now the beginning of 2012.