Also, fyi some photos by David Coxon of the night… :-)

A market opportunity to answer these questions if ever I saw one ;-)

If you are deploying all your data to the cloud, and spinning up server instances all over the place, now does this affect the networking model? ie are you still using active directory to control your users computers sites and services? And where does anti virus and maleware fit in? Then there is the whole area of licencing, if your creating hundreds of new servers on the fly how are they being licensed does it still use the per seat or per server appoach. even if your not using microsoft servers and services surely there'll be licenses for anti virus, back up etc.

When we talk about “the cloud” are we talking about a single cloud or many fluffy little clouds, ie would i use amazon to store my files and cloudmail to provide my email and someone else to supply my sql and someone else for my cms and if this is the case how do i back all of this up, do i have lots and lots of little back up all over this cloud.

And the final thing to leave you with is do we have enough people with the skills to do all this? As an IT manager of some years, i have a very good understanding of core It, backup, disaster recovery, and a little knowledge of Api's and web development,but i'm not entirely sure that most IT staff would have all of the skills required to do all of the tricky bits to make this seemless to their end users, and i don't think many sme's could afford to get an engineer in everytime it needs a tweek.

It looks very exciting though and i guess that there is no stopping it, so may as well get stuck in and give it a go.