Blah, blah, blah. Sounds like a load of marketing to me. If the cloud would solve all problems, we would not have any other DCs left by now. When I talk to my customers, do the calculations of what it will cost, including transfer fees, migration from one cloud to another, factor in downtime etc. etc. Using the cloud for core enterprise workloads is not going to cut it.
However! Small, agile startups, why not? Some test and dev, also sounds like a good choice. One thing is certain though, moving everything to cloud provider X, will give you a nightmare once you need to move to provider Y.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
