I was fortunate enough to attend the Google Atmosphere conference last week in London. My top 3 take aways were:

Cloud computing is a reality here and now, and is being used by businesses to reduce cost and redeploy expertise in a strategic manner
Even if your business is not considering how cloud computing can be used [...]

This is an interesting webcast where Serena Software talks about their migration from an on-premise email system (Exchange) to a cloud-based solution (the well-known Google Apps)

Many IT teams feel threatened by cloud based services because they are not under their direct control. However, forward-thinking IT teams realise that the right strategy is to embrace the [...]