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JESS3, a creative interactive agency that deals with social media and data visualization, claimed that its newly released 'The State of Cloud Computing' narrates the history of cloud computing and demonstrates the growing cloud economy.

In celebration and triumph of the power of the Internet, this three-minute animation details the “State of Cloud Computing”, highlighting the efforts of companies like project patron salesforce.com, a company which specializes in enterprise cloud computing. While the average person may not be able to clearly define cloud computing, this video helps everyday folks understand that they are actually in the cloud – whether it’s through their online email account, bank account or tending to their Farmville crops while on Facebook (News - Alert). 

According to JESS3, the video is part of a broader family of videos, each dedicated to the past, present and future of various sectors. The State of Cloud Computing follows two previous releases in the series: The State of the Internet, released in February 2010, and The Future of Revenue, released with Eloqua (News - Alert) in October 2010. Additionally the company has plans to launch The State of Wikipedia in conjunction with Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. 

The State of Cloud Computing spotlights the multitude of possibilities that cloud computing offers, from sharing videos and photos from anywhere in the world, to storing and organizing data for remote access, and also highlights the staggering investment in cloud-based businesses -- up from $25.7M in 2005 to $374.8M in 2009. Cloud-based brands including Skype, Dropbox, YouTube (News - Alert), Wikipedia, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail, Farmville and Twitter all make a debut in the video, as does Keyboard Cat. 

"With dozens of team members living all over the world, working in the cloud is critical for JESS3. In fact, I run my company 100% in the cloud. From sending files, to IM'ing, to collaborating on documents with each other and clients; what we do each day would not be possible without the freedom of the cloud," said Jesse Thomas, JESS3 founder and CEO, in a release. "After having the State of the Internet strike a chord with the Internet far and wide, we are beyond excited to dive deep into the cloud and bring this concept to life with salesforce.com -- and, watch out, we are focusing serious resources in the future of this series in video, film and book format."     

The three-minute video, funded by salesforce.com “CRM” is hosted on the TheStateofCloudComputing.com. The microsite also serves to aggregate and visualize conversations and links about cloud computing based on relevant key words and the hashtag #SOCC on Twitter.

Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Stefanie Mosca

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