I guess cloud computing is pretty much like every other innovation that's hit the IT space over the last 30 years: new companies and end user organizations are embracing it, while large IT shops are hesitant. This comes from PCWorld, at the Cloud Computing Forum:

The Symposium kicked off with an overview presentation by James Staten of Forrester Research. He noted that cloud computing is today being applied very inconsistently, which is to say that startups have embraced cloud computing, particularly Amazon's EC2 and S3 services, while enterprises have not yet begun to adopt cloud computing to any extent. He did note that one place cloud computing will be adopted in enterprises is by end user organizations in an effort to bypass IT organizations seen as expensive and unresponsive.

I think one thing is missing to let IT organizations jump in - the cloud equivalent of VPN. Once Google and Amazon offer that, all bets are off.

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