Gartner Outlines Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Cloud Strategy Through 2015

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1971515 

IT departments are clearly on notice here. Recent Microsoft-funded research by IDC showed that the use of cloud computing will result in millions of new jobs in the next five years. That's the good news. The bad news for IT is that whatever job growth there is will not come in IT. The automation that cloud computing provides will take on more of what traditional IT departments have done in the past so smart IT people need to get better acquainted with what services they can provide to their in-house end users, aka customers.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2012/mar12/03-05CloudComputingJobs.mspx

 Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015, according to a new study by the analyst firm IDC. The research, commissioned by Microsoft, also found that IT innovation created by cloud computing could produce $1.1 trillion a year in new business revenues.