As one of his major predictions for 2008, Forrester analyst John Rymer said he believes more and more enterprises will move to the "cloud for commodity workloads."

Nearly every major vendor has announced cloud strategies over the last year—not just the usual suspects such as Google and the space-leading Amazon.com, but Microsoft, IBM and a host of others.

"Virtualization and cloud computing are the key architectural breaks driving a massive transformation in the world of computing," said Patrick Kerpan, CTO and co-founder of CohesiveFT (Cohesive Flexible Technologies), a cloud infrastructure software provider. "It is computing 'gone through the looking glass.' We will look back and not be able to remember how we used to do things. It will be similar to the world of five years before Netscape to five years after Netscape."

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