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posted on 05 May 2008 08:30

Amazon and Sun are working together in a cloud computing infrastructure deal.

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz delivered a presentation at a San Francisco-based Startup Camp, associated with Sun's JavaOne developer conference. According to Gigaom he said that Sun and Amazon had interesting news coming out today concerned with computing in the cloud.

Cloud computing involves customers accessing computer application, processing and storage facilities in a remote datacentre over the Internet. Suppliers such as Amazon (Elastic Compute Cloud), EMC (Mozy), Google, IBM, Microsoft (LIveMesh), Nirvanix, Salesforce.com and others are offering cloud-based computing services to businesses of all sizes. Customers pay for the cloud resources they use and don't have to buy their own computing infrastructure to deal with the work.

Sun offered early cloud-based processing and storage services but these failed to take off and have been eclipsed by these newer offerings.

It is thought that ZFS, Sun's revolutionary file system, may be involved in the deal. MySQL developer tools may also be involved.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}