If you’re at all confused about whether Cloud Computing is the future – check out these stats:

- CRN predicts that small business spending on Cloud Computing will hit $100 billion by 2014

- IDC estimates the market for public cloud products and services at $16B in 2010, growing to $56B by 2014

- Gartner estimates the Cloud market at $150B by 2013 while Merrill Lynch has it at 160B by 2011

- A recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers by SandHill found that ~50% of respondents cited business agility as their primary reason for adopting cloud applications

- Mobile and social computing are growing faster than anything before in the history of technology, and enterprise applications will need to adapt

- Gartner estimates that virtualization is growing rapidly and that by 2013, 60% of server workloads will be virtualized

- Public cloud infrastructure, applications and platforms are growing at 25%+ yet IDC projects that the market for enterprise servers will double by 2013

- A recent survey showed that every enterprise was using a SaaS application but less than a quarter of IT departments were aware that they were

Still not convinced?

Oh dear..