It seems cloud computing was a hot topic at this past week's Enterprise 2.0 conference, and many of the wrap-up articles being posted around the Web center around that.
InformationWeek has an interesting piece on the real concerns that customers have about cloud computing, particularly security, the possibility of vendor lock-in, how regulatory and legal compliance works, reliability, TCO, and long-term vendor commitment. The piece raises some interesting points about the way companies are addressing these concerns right now.
The FASTForward blog has some notes by Bill Ives on an interesting session in which four companies provided a variety of different approaches to social computing.
Dennis Howlett at ZDNet posts a wrapup of the whole event with some jabs at Oracle and Microsoft for being out of touch with the spirit of Enterprise 2.0. The article also has an interesting discussion in the comments, in which Howlett astutely points out in response to a reader's security concerns that if Lockheed Martin and the CIA are working with Enterprise 2.0 that it can't be an impossible task to do so securely.
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