http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/utility.html The latest utility computing news and analysis from Network World Fusion. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072209-the-tech-jobs-that-the.html As if outsourcing, virtualization, utility computing, automation, hosted applications, and a recession weren't enough to stress out the average IT professional, there's the emerging threat of cloud computing to take away even more IT jobs. As time progresses, analyst firms foresee the cloud becoming more prevalent, absorbing functions traditionally done by IT. IDC predicts that worldwide IT spending on cloud services will grow almost threefold by 2012 to $42 billion. Gartner has even predicted that, for IT, cloud computing will become as influential as e-business has been. Leon Erlanger 2009-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031709-cloud-computing.html IT infrastructure and services delivered over the cloud will be ubiquitous within five years, and vendors that ignore the shift from on-premises software to Internet-delivered technology will be left in the dust. Jon Brodkin 2009-03-17T12:00:00-04:00