Predicting The Future Of Cloud Service Providers (Forbes)

From a (Microsoft commissioned) 451 Research study summary

"47% of marketing departments will have 60% or more of their applications on a cloud platform in two years.
When asked which Value-Added Reseller (VAR) is most likely to win their enterprises’ business for a significant hosting project, the majority said IBM (18%) followed by Microsoft (11%), Amazon (8%) and Dell (7%).

Database (57%), e-mail (54%) and business applications (ERP, CRM & industry-specific apps) (49%) are the three leading application hosting investments enterprises will be making in the next two years."

Predicting The Future Of Cloud Service Providers