This week featured a few significant updates from the cloud industry, perhaps most notably the unveiling of Hewlett-Packard’s Moonshot Project. The new breed of servers offers what HP refers to as hyperscale: a high-density configuration that packs hundreds or thousands of power-conscious AMD microprocessors. In essence the electronics giant is looking to offer more computational resources for less overhead – in this case the electricity bill.

Several HP execs sat down at theCube to discuss this latest update, and expectations around it are naturally high. One executive even suggested that this new technology may prove to be as disruptive as the early PC.

In a different part of the datacenter, storage and backup solutions maker FalconStor struck an agreement with Fujitsu to integrate its software with the latter’s disk systems. FalconStor Network Storage Server will be made available to customers that purchase enterprise services or PRIMERGY servers from the Japanese IT company and its resellers.

Storage giant EMC in turn is took a leap further into the cloud, specifically with its “as-a-service” businesses. Some of its enterprise content management applications and related tools are now available to customers on a SaaS basis, powered by  VMware-virtualized and RSA-secured datacenters.

The “as-a-service” market is a rapidly-expanding one, stretching from enterprise applications to consumer services such as Box and Dropbox, as well as development tools.  Appcelerator, a company that provides a web-based platform for mobile developers, raised $15 million in a second round of funding from investors including the Mayfield Fund and Red Hat.

Our very own Kristina Farrah wrote-up an overview of the mobile development world and the way it ties in with the cloud.  Companies such as Appcelerator, alongside appMobi and a growing userbase that drives the market to roll out new and better offerings all play a part in this trend.