Silver Springs officially announced the cloud services for management of the meter networks [1] . Several of us have predicted this happening though there were several factors which were slowing the trend. The facts are simple – Utilities have started deploying networks at a scale that they have never deployed before at a very rapid scale and there is very little chance that the ramp up in skill set to manage the operations will match to the scale of deployments. Outsourcing in the utility << More >>