I had the opportunity to attend IOD this week (10/25/2010) and was able to attend the Cognos 10 launch event in person.  I learned quite a bit about the product and wanted to share my first impressions of the new release.

For something that is attracting boatloads of attention, lots of curiosity, some level of skepticism, but plenty of filled seats in various seminars, Cloud Computing still seems like a pretty mysterious thing.  But maybe it’s really in use more than we think, and for many of us, we can actually claim to be participants without having consciously moved towards the cloud.