The Big Switch

1.Henry Burden's company helped create the idea that you could run the company without having to supply the "power"
2. Current corporate servers run at 20 percent capacity compared to the 80% they used to
3.Network storage has about 35% productivity
4. Biggest Source of IT's inefficiency is IT labor costs
5.The cost of IT has gone from 5% in the 60's-70's to close to 50%
6. Cloud computing is a way to for corporate IT to drive down their costs.
7. About 50 % of international companies are using Cloud computing.
8. Moore's Law power of computing at a set price will double almost every 18 months
9.Grove the CEO of Intel in the 90's discovered that the data communications networks only doubled every century

10.There are 3 adaptions of the cloud that could be used, one is a a model for your own data center another is as a supplement the most popular adaptation and the last is as a replacement.