How Do You Measure the Growth of the Cloud?

I just read an AMD blog on the growth of cloud computing and just how fast the explosion in digital data really is.  This revolution dramatically change the demands on servers.  They need to balance:
- cost
- performance
- I/O capabilities
- low energy consumption
- hardware-assisted virtualization

From the blog: “The explosion of digital data is fundamentally changing the dynamics of how servers are built, bought and deployed. The days of just throwing “raw” performance at the problem are long gone and the era of efficient computing with servers that balance price, performance and power is officially upon us. AMD’s answer to this challenge – the AMD Opteron 4000 and 6000 Series platforms.”

AMD has also created a little video which details out just how fast cloud growth is and how you measure it. It is actually pretty interesting and worth a watch.