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I attended the 8th international Cloud Computing Expo in NYC (June 6th – June 9th 2011). There were over 7,000 attendees with curiosity and enthusiasm about the technology. Many informative workshops were being offered. They all shared these facts: • Cloud is booming even though it is in an early stage. • The use of Cloud alone is not enough. Make sure that Cloud is designed with security, reliability, no lock-in and scalability. • Cloud is highly scalable with SaaS (Software as a Service); PaaS (Platform as a Service); IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and BaaS (Business model as a Service) for pricing and provisioning solutions. • Cloud is driven by benefits like resource pooling, use on demand, cutting costs, improving agility, increasing scale, reliability and leveraging best practices. • The challenges are multi-cloud management, configuration, operation, lock-in, security and standardization.