More idealistically, cloud computing aims to create Webscale systems: extremely large systems that have this ability to expand and contract as needed. Carl Claunch, VP analyst at Gartner, commented that this scale could reach up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per section, rates that we arent conceiving of with traditional, internal IT, during Gartners Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013 Webinar. Just as quickly, these systems should be able to shrink or completely disappear once a project is completed.