Problem analysis? What are the central facts of the case? What is the major overriding issue in the case? What sub-issue or related issue?

What recommendations for this case?should the company act as it did? What they should do now? Why? List pros and cons each alternative.

Cloud Computing: Earth's Friend or Foe?" The term "cloud computing" conjures up beautful visions of nature at its most pristine, but the reality of it is much more mundane. Cloud computing is simply the delivery of computing and storage capacity to customers through shared data networks-rather than being just one thing, it is a group of technologies or practices. Cloud computing is important because it utilizes a range of recently developed technologies and takes advantage of trends (such as the rise of outsourcing) and resources (such as increased bandwidth), making it an important "evolutionary step" in computing. The cloud has arrived and firms are moving inexorably in its direction; however, we are not yet certain of all its effects. In addition to cloud computing's contributions to business efficiency and global outreach, its positive environmental impact has drawn praise from its proponents. Verdantix, an independent positive environmental impact has drawn praise from ts proponents. Verdantix, an independent analyst firm, produced a Carbon Disclosure Project study based on detailed information from 11 global firms that have used cloud computing for at least two years. They used the case study information to build a forecast model that predicted by 2020, U.S. companies with revenues of more than $1 billion could cut CO2 emissions by 85 7 million metric tons annually if they spend 60 percent of infrastructure, platform and software budgets on cloud computing. An addendum to the Carbon Disclosure Project study found that large IT companies in Frange and the United Kingdom could cut their carbon emissions in half by 2020 if they move their IT systems to the cloud. They reported that a move to the cloud would save the equivalent of the annual emissions of 630,000 passenger vehicles in France and 4 million in the United Kingdom