The promise of cloud computing as a way to reduce costs, manage expansion and make the creation of new services easier is very real, but we’re still in the early days of adoption.

Organisations and governments are still largely digesting what they’ve heard, sifting through the benefits, and weighing up the “fear, uncertainty and doubt” concerning its impact on businesses and services.

What is true and very real is the impact it’s having on how services are being created and how seriously corporate IT is taking it.

For those wanting to build the next Facebook it’s a no-brainer. Pinterest, the fanatically followed online pin board is the fastest growing site in history, (17m users in just 9 months), and to date it’s pure cloud.

However, for the corporate IT manager there’s the issue of trust to be addressed. The goal is alluring; moving infrastructure …