Is your Customer Data in the Cloud?

Let me share this article with this thread, it relates to Cloud Computing and is very compelling:

AUTONOMY, the FTSE 100 company that supplies technology to search emails and voicemails for fraudulent activity, saw its shares jump 6pc after its full-year profits beat analysts' expectations.
The shares put on 94p - their biggest one-day gain in almost two years - to close at £15.90 after reporting a 6pc increase in 2010 pre-tax profits to $282m (£175m). Revenue came in 17pc higher at $870m.
Mike Lynch, chief executive, said revenues are beginning to stabilise as customers switch to "cloud computing", where they pay a monthly charge to use software stored on the internet rather than pay an upfront licence fee.
"We have a lot of business built in for the coming year," Mr Lynch said in a Bloomberg interview. "We are getting an annuity stream"
Mr Lynch, who in October warned that full-year profits would be below expectations, suggested that analysts might increase their 2011 expectations, which he said were "still quite conservative".
Autonomy has long divided opinion among City analysts and continued to attract diverse views from the bears and bulls yesterday.
Paul Morland, a bearish analyst at Peel Hunt, said: "Results for 2010 were almost exactly in line with consensus. This followed poor results in the second quarter and a warning with in-line third-quarter results.
"We believe that this con-firms a sharp slowdown in the second-half and the risk to 2011 estimates is on the downside even though the company continues to claim that analysts are too conservative."
George O'Connor, a more bullish analyst at Panmure Gordon, said: "It looks as if short positions are being closed off. There was no surprise in the numbers and the story is broadly getting better. The market decided to park the numbers and fall in love with the stock"
Mr Lynch, who declined to speak to The Daily Telegraph, said that Autonomy was still working on a long-planned acquisition, which has been delayed because of "changes in the targeted asset".
However, it said the target company has not been sold to a rival.

I am beginning to believe that the Cloud has arrived. Are their any other stories out there?