Challenges in Cloud Computing

The adoption of cloud computing has accelerated in 2010, and this trend will remain in 2011. As cloud-computing technologies and vendors mature, more enterprises will adopt the Internet-based computing style. Large enterprises will adopt cloud computing at different paces, depending on their risk profiles. Even more riskaverse enterprises will start to exploit cloud computing through the rest of 2010 and into 2011 for: website and video hosting, collaboration activities, auxiliary storage and processing, testing and software as a service (SaaS). Organizations will use cloud computing to reduce the cost of email, IT infrastructure, data centers and storage, and business applications. And not only that: operating expenditures (OpEx) were "spiritus movens" in IT area in the period 2008-2010, and still will remain in 2011 and 2012.