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I’ve been heavily involved in creating the developer hosting resources at Intuit, primarily the prototype/unstructured time/whitespace time project needs of our employees. With the financial information our data centers handle, they end up being tied down just like a bank’s computers, often making it difficult to get experimental stuff into the mix. And to make matters more complex, that experimental stuff sometimes needs to access the financial information, and it needs to comply with Intuit’s strong privacy and data security policies. A few years ago, Intuit put a team in place that began work on providing virtual machine hosting - our own internal cloud computing farm. When I began looking to support teams that needed hosting, I ran into that team and we began to work together to deliver the goods. Their cloud delivery application is great - easier to use than Amazon’s EC2, but capable of delivering both internal and EC2 virtual environments. Together, we now have a solution for teams needing to develop against our enterprise applications and offerings as well as new and creative things. So it was with a smile that I read an internal blog post by Bill Laaser in our Technology Innovation Group. He attended the recent Under The Radar conference, where one of the hot topics was cloud computing. It looks like we’re doing it right at Intuit. We have our own internal cloud computing resources, we’re extending secure computing into the public cloud as well as experimenting with the existing basic public cloud computing resources. It’s an exciting time in the world of hosting - the traditional models of big data centers and big hosting providers is being challenged, and it’ll be all the better for the users of these systems. - Matt H

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