Do you think moving to the Cloud will make the operation easier from the IT management point of view?

1. The creation of a new generation of products and services.

2. A new lightweight form of real-time partnerships and outsourcing with     IT suppliers.

3. A new awareness and leverage of the greater Internet and Web2.0 in         particular.

4. A reconciliation of traditional SOA with the cloud and other emerging       IT models.

5. The rise of new industry leaders and IT vendors.

6. More self-service IT from the business-side.

7. More tolerance for innovation and experimentation from businesses.

8. The slow-moving, dinosaur firms will have trouble keeping up more           nimble adopters and fast-followers. 

For many organizations in the short term the apparent potential of the individual changes above will often not be sufficient to them to make the transition to cloud computing, particularly as the cloud market is so new and major players such as IBM and HP have yet to arrive in full force. But gaining competency in cloud computing today by conducting pilots and building skills will server companies well and begin to position them for the future IT landscape. Longer term, cloud computing is increasingly appearing to be a transformative change in the business landscape.