Infrastructure 2011: 5 Trends Not to Expect

Don't expect ubiquitous cloud computing, clean IT progress or AWS revenue announcements in 2011.

If there’s one thing certain in IT, it’s that users are always searching for the next big thing, but that legacy vendors and equipment, as well as national technology policy, can slow down progress in immeasurable ways. Here we highlight several happenings and trends in cloud computing, those that get a lot of ink but haven’t been fulfilled, and won’t likely be within the next year.

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