<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e61b8408-d62e-4bcc-a592-1334ce77bd04/15B4D407-4625-4600-81FF-E61B91C600FB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/07/forrester-surprise-the-enterprise-is-ready-for-cloud-computing.html" href="http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/07/forrester-surprise-the-enterprise-is-ready-for-cloud-computing.html" style="font-size: 11px;">cloudstoragestrategy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/07/forrester-surprise-the-enterprise-is-ready-for-cloud-computing.html"><DIV>Cloud Computing pundits have predicted that the early adopters will be largely comprised of small and mid-sized businesses. </DIV><BR /><DIV>Some new data from <B>Forrester</B> suggests that won't be the case.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/07/forrester-surprise-the-enterprise-is-ready-for-cloud-computing.html"><B>one out of four large companies plan to use an external provider soon, or have already employed one.</B>  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. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/07/forrester-surprise-the-enterprise-is-ready-for-cloud-computing.html">cloud computing brings a disruptive and liberating pricing model to infrastructure. Why sink capital costs into infrastructure when you don't have to?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/07/forrester-surprise-the-enterprise-is-ready-for-cloud-computing.html">Enterprise hosting companies are already positioned to deliver cloud computing services to the enterprise market,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cloudstoragestrategy.com/2009/07/forrester-surprise-the-enterprise-is-ready-for-cloud-computing.html">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.  </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/15B4D407-4625-4600-81FF-E61B91C600FB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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