A driver for the adoption of cloud computing has been the rapid acceptance of consumer devices into enterprise IT, Tribridge’s Greg Pierce wrote last month on CRN.com.  BYOD, consumerisation and cloud computing: it is all related and connected.

And it seems operating systems might become an important driver and differentiator.

Pierce explains how this adoption of the cloud can be strengthened by the ongoing acceptance into enterprise IT and looks especially at the role new operating systems, in this case Windows 8, can play in this regard. [Read more...]