Public clouds could take decades to mature, so says Gartner.

Those are wise words, carefully chosen, indeed.  Contrary to the initial emotion that the title evokes, this is no doomsday statement.  Fact is, going deeper through the article, one gets still gets a sense of the inevitable.  The difference is that this time, cloud adoption goes through private clouds first. At least till the next PR. When they said decade, it might probably mean just a year in Internet time.

It all depends how you see things!

Related: Word-wise on all things cloud.

Cloud's Security Issues: Finding balance between security concerns from business and consumer angles.

How secure is the cloud? Interview with Whitfield Diffie, fmr Chief Security officer at Sun offers interesting analogy.

Encryption to the Rescue. Fear not the cloud.

Pondering on economic advantages in the enterprise and Werner Vogels CIO optimism.  More cloud success stories in the enterprise would be good at erasing doubts than all analysis combined! 

Best reason to shift early into the cloud - taking fear and finance into the picture!  Care to guess? Here.