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On-Premise computing is a dinosaur watching the incoming meteor.

“Cloud computing is set to become mainstream computing, period.”

-Joe McKendrick, Forbes

14%31%27%

fully migrated

migrating within 12 months

fully migrated by end of 2015

Cloud Adoption

as of Dec ‘13[Cloud usage continues to grow as more and more companies abandon on-premise.

90%of Microsoft’s R&D budget in 2011 was spent on cloud computing strategy & products

>2%of electricity use in theUS is consumed by data centers

75%of respondents use some form of cloud platform.Up from 67% in 2012

>50% They spend over $2 billion annually on cloud services.Experts have deemed them the biggest cloud user in the world!

of US Government has moved to the cloud.

This will expand their number of data centers from 12 to 27.

IBM plans to spend $1.2Bon data centers in 2014.

Cloud computing is one of the largest trends in todays business world. Some big moves have already been made and 2014 will continue in the same direction.

Possible future applications of cloud technology include:

Personal handlerwired into your glassesSees what you see, analyzes what you’re looking at & whispers information to you regarding the subject

A universal translatornear-real-time translation with natural language processing and context awareness for accurate results

Analysis of socialnetworking sites use of computer algorithms todecipher mood of general publicto predict market fluctuations todirect stock trades

Crime Solving TechnologyAutomated processing of pictures & video feeds recorded from social media & security cameras to find both suspects & missing persons

The overall cloud market grew to

$131B

Cloud spending is expected to reach

$241B

2013

2020

It’s HereTo Stay