- in 2005, five investments were made to startups exploring the cloud
- in 2009, seventy investments were made to startups exploring the cloud

- Cloud revenue in 2010: $68.3 billion
- Predicted cloud revenue in 2014: $148.8 billion
- That same year, over 60% of all server workloads will be virtualized.

So how and with what are we using the Cloud?

- 56% Webmail
- 10% Data Storage & Backups
- 34% Photos
- 29% Applications
- 7% Videos

- Over 443 Million Skype subscribers used 23.6 billion skype-to-skype minutes in the first quarter of 2009.
- Dropbox has 4 million users storing over 1 Petabyte (a million gigabytes).
- 35 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute.
- Wikipedia has over 10 million articles in 273 languages.
- Over 40% of email is done through a mobile device or online using Yahoo!, MSN, or GMail.
- Farmville adds 10 million users a month.
- 90 million tweets are sent daily.

Here is an interesting link trying to keep track of the state of the internet: http://www.thestateofcloudcomputing.com/