It has the potential to be as revolutionary as the movement to cloud-based SaaS platforms at the turn of the century.
"There is a massive movement to the cloud among enterprise customers around the world," said Somasegar.
While the team planned on compositing multiple passes to provide physical movement to the cloud shots, Trumbull felt that it detracted from the sense of scale, and so small animations were subtly introduced in the final product.
For Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, it's all about the movement to what he calls Cloud 2: mobile, social, realtime.
The movement to software in the cloud has been great for Akamai, given that more Internet traffic means more business for you.
Instead, there is an agnostic movement to make on-premise and cloud services accessible through a universe of providers and open-source services that run anywhere — be it a private data center or a public cloud service.
Meanwhile, the instrumentalists formed and matched their sounds with lively sensitivity, and if there was a lack of urgency in the movement from one cloud to the next, that was in the nature of the piece.
Dell will pay $24.05 in cash for each EMC share and $9.10 in new shares issued to investors tracking the share price movement of cloud computing firm VMware, a listed company part-owned by EMC. "Our new company will be exceptionally well-positioned for growth in the most strategic areas of next generation IT," said Mr Dell, who will be chief executive and chairman of the combined company.
Once their partnership was broken, however, wickets fell steadily as the bowlers, with the help of the new ball, started to find movement under gathering clouds that led to the introduction of the floodlights.
But as the movement into the cloud continues to push us forward, what's clear is that our lives as consumers and business people are already changing.
