Are we ready for the cloud? ... and Google Chrome OS?

After watching some videos of Chrome OS on youtube, I started to wonder, how much impact will Google's Chrome OS bring and are we ready to move on to the cloud? I do agree the benefits of cloud computing and believe this will be the future trend. But in the first place, who is going to make the first move? With cloud services rising, how many organizations will make use of these services?

Let's take Chrome OS as an example. It's slick, lightweight, fast, etc, but it depends heavily on an internet connection, which means that you, most probably, got to have an unlimited mobile data plan before you can make full use of it. Okay, now let's assume that data plan is going to be very cheap that its not a matter to you. Next question is security. Since most of us use our laptops for work, mostly. How many will put their daily work on Google, or use Google Docs for their office documents? Yes, I hate organizations that still stick to using Micro$oft office for documents/spreadsheets/presentations. However, it may be against the organization's policy for employees to put documents on the public cloud, as almost all of them contains sensitive or confidential data. It depends greatly on how much trust that organization is willing to give Google.

During my days in college, I often make use of Google Docs for writing lab and project reports. I find that its very convenient and collaboration support is very useful when you are working on the reports with few other teammates. However, after entering the working industry, I've realized many organizations are hesitant to moving data onto cloud.

So, this comes to my mind that if we can build an private cloud in an organization, and custom made Chrome OS so that it will automatically connects to the organization's private cloud. All documents data are kept at the organization's own cloud, managed by their own IT departments. By this, the organization can also prevents their information leak since Google Chrome OS is not going to have an hard disk, which means sensitive documents cannot be downloaded and stored offline. Will this way make it a better and easier way to adapt to cloud?