Would the real world please raise its hand?
Perhaps the trends mentioned in this piece are true in the very large corporation, but I can't see it applying to the rest of us. I work in the trenches with small businesses and the majority - the vast majority of business owners do not know and do not WANT to know about cloud computing. The cost savings are just not there for them. They keep their data local on servers they control. Cloud backup? Sure, some do. Cloud computing? Nope.
Having said that, I've also worked in I.T. for the federal government in the recent past and they are always last to adopt new tech, so plenty of work for sys admins there for the foreseeable future. In my experience, the fed govt is at least 5 years behind the corporate world in I.T. innovations. Only when there is a justifiable reason driving it does technology change occur there. The fed is not driven by profit. They don't need to jump ahead of the competition to stay afloat.
Also, it's a hard sell to convince upper management in a big company that placing critical data in the hands of a third party cloud provider is secure. However, it's a relatively easy sell to convince them to create a private cloud they own and control. So, if you want to make a case for cloud growth in the large corporate environment, there it is. You might get some collocation to a third party provider just for DR/COOP.
Lastly, cloud computing when it first started was something entirely different that what it is today. It's essentially become a fad full of confusion and misinformation. From that, distrust is soon to follow.
My 2 cents.
