http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msenterprise/archive/2011/12/22/preparing-for-the-private-cloud-rethinking-it-roles.aspxW ritten by Bob Violino, TechWeb A growing number of companies are moving to cloud computing environments to take advantage of potential benefits such as lower IT costs, increased efficiencies and the greater flexibility provided by the cloud modelen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msenterprise/archive/2011/12/22/preparing-for-the-private-cloud-rethinking-it-roles.aspx#10254178Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:42:01 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10254178Nick Lachey<p>Nice post. I found this blog which describes the top benefits of utilizing cloud computing in general, and a cloud database in particular<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blog.caspio.com/web-database/top-benefits-of-database-cloud-computing/">blog.caspio.com/.../top-benefits-of-database-cloud-computing</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10254178" width="1" height="1">