Episode #11 featuring Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder of Box.net and Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO and Founder of Cloudsoft.

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UPDATES

In a special for PCWorld today, Lifehacker editor in chief Adam Pash gives the low-down on how to move your business to cloud computing.

EVENT UPDATES

Interop started on Sunday. They just announced the Best of Interop winners with InformationWeek Analytics. The Cloud Computing winner: IBM for Smart Business Dev’t and Test on the IBM Cloud.

AlwaysOn On Demand was last week. The big winner of the Company of the Year award was Appirio, a cloud solution provider offering products & professional services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of cloud technologies. Maybe we’ll have them on an upcoming episode…

Lieberman Software is hosting a webinar tomorrow at 11am PT on the challenges of maintaining security and compliance in cloud environments. (Phil was a guest on the show)

Cloud Expo Europe is in Prague June 21-22. Don’t forget – the call for presentations is open until April 30.

NEWS

Story 1 Oracle is now charging for an Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office.

Story 2 Previous TWiCC guest, Ellen Rubin of CloudSwitch attended the Cloud Computing Expo last week and blogs, “At first glance, cloud computing can appear to be ‘virtualization taken to its logical conclusion.’” She mentions a recent Gartner study noting cloud computing is the #2 priority for CIOs – trumped only by…virtualization.

Story 3 Salesforce has acquired business contacts directory startup, Jigsaw

STORY 4 F5 Networks made a big splash at Interop on Monday, announcing an upgrade to its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers. The new version helps extend enterprise data center architecture to the cloud by letting tech departments employ “On-Demand IT” through a dynamic services model.

STORY 5 Story Red Hat extends Linux subscriptions to cloud computing