To be honest, Microsoft “cloud” demos usually put me to sleep, but not this one. At the PDC2010 keynote yesterday, Pixar Animation Studio’s Chris Ford demoed a cloud-hosted prototype of their Academy Award-winning Renderman solution that in my opinion makes the best case for cloud computing I’ve seen yet. The Windows Azure-powered prototype website, albeit … Continue reading Pixar’s Renderman prototype is the best realization of the cloud computing vision yet