[legion]

Originally Posted by beepbeep

+1 on legion.

I'm in the industry. Most bigger companies don't want to submit anything to somebody elses "cloud" except maybe e-mail. "Cloud" is nothing but a bunch of iron in server-room, but serviced by somebody else.

Big companies have their own "clouds" in shape of SQL and VMWare clusters.

While this might be somewhat usable for Joe 6-Pack (mail, basic Word-processing etc.), moving heavier applications to cloud is big no-no.

And what happens when "cloud" breaks? It's a mess:

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/03/23/online-backup-provider-loses-customers-data

It sounds like you work in a similar environment to me. They won't even let developers inside of the server rooms where I work for security reasons. There's no way we will ever offload our computing to someone else--the security risk is just too great.