> and at least 900 of them are forbidden by law to run them on clouds (e.g. banks). Minor nit: banks are increasingly using cloud computing where they legally

> and at least 900 of them are forbidden by law to run them on clouds (e.g. banks). Minor nit: banks are increasingly using cloud computing where they legally can, and that's becoming a lot easier now that regulators are using the cloud as well. The bigger problem for banks with cloud is cross-border data transfer. Will Luxembourg or Monaco or $country allow banks there to host their computers in a cloud in Frankfurt or Dublin or Amsterdam? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, so you always have to have a backup plan.