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ZDNet: Recession worries? Not for cloud computing

In 2008, small and midsized businesses ran for the cloud. In 2011 and 2012, large enterprises are going to make the move.

A rocky economic picture is likely to speed up the migration to cloud computing—again.

In the 2008-2009 downturn, companies moved to software as a service vendors en masse. Chief financial officers liked the ability to shift capital spending (build your own data centers and applications) to monthly expenses (subscribing to your software) and gave technology executives a shove to the cloud.

Fast forward a few years and technology executives are mostly on the cloud computing bandwagon. But just like 2008 any stragglers are going to get shoved to the cloud. Multiyear, expensive deployments just don’t add up amid economic uncertainty. In 2008, small and midsized businesses ran for the cloud. In 2011 and 2012, large enterprises are going to make the move.

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