"JN: In order to get these economies of scale, the computing services really need to be commodity, meaning that you can replace one service for another. That means little or no customization and security will be more limited. Support will need to be standardized to bring down costs. Service levels will probably not be as high as internal staff, but will be much cheaper as a result. Also, bandwidth today is probably not be up to the requirements to move everything out of the enterprise..."
