Economics of the cloud: employment effects in two exemplary sectors in the USA, the UK, Germany and Italy

It is commonly felt that cloud computing will bring changes to information handling practices with widespread effects on organizational structures and strategies. In this post, Jonathan Liebenau and Patrik Karrberg show how better models to assess the economic effects of cloud computing can provide concrete evidence of what is more or less likely to be those changes. The authors report the findings from a study that accounts, in detail, for the likely impact of cloud computing in major industrial and services sectors.