Toward "Hypergalactic-Scale" Computing?

It seems that nearly every day brings new features and pricing models from established competitors; launch announcements from enterprise players; new entrants with new angles; and acquisition of cloud pure-plays by legacy players. IEEE Cloud Computing strives to eschew the technobabble for solid technology and trend analysis, focusing on technology, business, economics, and legal issues through dedicated columns and departments. The May/June 2015 issue features five articles covering topics ranging from context-aware mobile cloud computing, to the use of standards to leverage cloud security service-level agreements, to the intersection of containerization and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) clouds.