This was an interesting story. According to Microsoft research chief Rick Rashid, around 20 per cent of all the servers sold around the world each year are now being bought by a small handful of internet companies – he named Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon. That is an amazing statistic, and certainly not one I’d heard before. And this is before cloud computing has really caught on in a big way.  And all this before cloud computing as really taken off. in-Aptly said by IBM CEO in 1943 and  then aptly re-phrased by Sun Microsystems CTO in the present context – The world only needs 5 computers

Anyway, cloud computing is a different paradigm.  Cloud computing is not fluff, its future of IT. For end users, cloud computing means there are no hardware acquisition costs, no software licenses or upgrades to manage, no new employees or consultants to hire, no facilities to lease, no capital costs of any kind — and no hidden costs. Just a metered, per-use rate or subscription fee. Cloud computing is changing the economics of Computing from being a Capital investment to Utilities.  The only question is how secure is your data in the cloud?  How do you trust your cloud provider?  Do you place mission critical data in the cloud?