The current economic crisis will shape things to come based on opportunity and necessity. An article in Datamanation entitled "Business Sees Cloud Trend as Inevitable" described how the effects of the economic crisis will further drive business towards the cloud computing trend. (Cloud computing: to buy computing power as a service from another company) "Compelling economics will ultimately force you to move to clouds," stated Erich Clementi, IBM's general manager of cloud computing for Reuters in London and quoted again in Datamanation. Recently, Cisco entered the market to produce blade servers--seeking to take advantage of this trend. One of the benefits of cloud computing is that it saves money since the organization can purchase just what they need or use and do not need to maintain their own hardware, software and network gear ( and staff ).