In a Boston Globe article today  about a Microsoft/IDC report indicating that Cloud Computing could create over 1 Million jobs by 2015:

“Ion Stoica, a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley, agrees the cloud will generate jobs, but argues that rather than coming from companies that redirect money saved when they mothball servers, more jobs may be created because the cloud lowers the bar for the initial investment in new technologies.”

The full article is at:

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2012/03/05/hubs_future_jobs_may_be_in_cloud/