• Is security a concern? Always. People question it where ever you go, but it's heighten the moment its out of your hands and into the hands of a third-party.

    From my end, cloud computing is becoming a very attractable solution simply because SQL Server does not scale horizontally to meet the needs of large volume computations. The question of investing in your own solutions is raised, but that's a huge undertaken when cloud solutions are so easy to jump into tomorrow. The, "yes, no, well, maybe" happens a lot.