Only two major server operating systems will experience significant growth through 2010 -- Windows and Linux. But lightweight operating systems will take off with double-digit growth, including JeOS, a variant of Ubuntu configured specifically for virtual appliances.

Thirty-eight percent of conference attendees are using some type of external cloud computing service.

By 2012 at least 14% of the infrastructure at Fortune 1000 companies will be service-oriented, scalable and elastic -- operated as if it they were "" for each company's users.