Outlook for Bangalore: Cloudy. Experts on cloud computing -- that fancy term for using supercomputers and amped-up servers for remote services -- will gather in India. Ahead of the meeting, we called Ramnath K. Chellappa, the professor who coined the term in 1997, to ask for his outlook. He says that cash-strapped midlevel firms may "begin moving to a cloud-computing-type scenario" to cut costs, replacing pricey software bundles with "on-demand mixing and matching." In other words, this cloud has a much-needed silver lining. -- AB

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IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING
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