Yes not to mention the thousands of companies that have to deal with Ex&#x2F;Im laws that cannot move to &quot;the cloud&quot;.  Not to mention the CIOs that will have to tell there lawyers that all there IP is leaving the network...but don&#x27;t worry, it&#x27;s still secure.  The list goes on.<p>The other thing is the writer seems overwhelmingly fond of Pure Storage...until they are bought by one of his Walking Dead.  Instead of calling these companies &quot;Walking Dead&quot;, he should be highlighting more the approach Microsoft has done.  What Dell&#x2F;EMC, IBM, Cisco, HP, and more will start to see is that they can operate in both worlds.  Amazon will never turn over there stack to a company so that it can operate inside that companies physical control, but the listed companies (like Microsoft) can make there stacks available &quot;in the cloud&quot; and palpable to the public furthering there market.<p>To me, whereas Amazon and the like have plenty of growth ahead of them, these &quot;Walking Dead&quot; have higher ceilings although it will take quite a bit of inertial change.  I can see IBM already working and heading in that direction.  If they (like Microsoft) become another success story, it will be hard for the others to ignore that strategy.<p>But the author got his clicks and his eyes...so I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll see of this.