IDG Contributor Network: Yes, the cloud computing category can grow (almost) forever

Nothing goes up forever, but in the case of cloud computing, there appears no end of growth in sight as companies increasingly put their trust and their data in the cloud. These cloud services could be public clouds shared by many customers on a single set of infrastructure managed and run by a cloud provider, or private cloud resources dedicated for their own use.Having said that, projecting actual dollars-and-cents spending on cloud services—or any segment of IT for that matter—is