Cloud service is less nebulous than outsourcing says Savvis. A detailed breakdown of cloud services makes them more likely to succeed.

At Data Centre 2011 in Nice Neil Cresswell, MD for Savvis EMEA, outlined why cloud computing won't repeat the failures of incarnations of online service.

Over the past two decades, previous generations of marketing gurus and tame analysts have hailed a series of disastrous utility offerings.

Source: MicroScope