Cloud Computing pundits have predicted that the early adopters will be largely comprised of small and mid-sized businesses.
Some new data from Forrester suggests that won't be the case.
one out of four large companies plan to use an external provider soon, or have already employed one. Furthermore, we learn that 33 per cent of large companies plan to use a service provider for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, while just 24 per cent want to run their own "private" clouds.
cloud computing brings a disruptive and liberating pricing model to infrastructure. Why sink capital costs into infrastructure when you don't have to?
Enterprise hosting companies are already positioned to deliver cloud computing services to the enterprise market,
IT hosting is in the process of transforming to electric-utility-like status. We will think of IT hosters as providing IT infrastructure as a service, and we will want to "plug in" to these providers as we plug in to the power grid today.
clipped from: cloudstoragestrategy.com