SaaSDavid wrote:Clouds are more so to do with SAAS, Software as a Service, as well as expandable storage and bandwidth.
It's not just online storage
The "cloud" is something SaaS sits in, same as PaaS (platform), they just "services" sitting on someone else's hardware, with someone else managing infrastructure, platform and software. The scalability of "cloud" and the disruption to traditional cost models really are opening massive opportunities for all sorts of weird and wonderful solutions.
I'm getting a lot of exposure to a couple of SalesForce.com offerings at the minute, SalesCloud 2.0, ServiceCloud, Force.com and chatter. If you can accept the limitations they place on these products (for the purpose of ensuing a reasonable level of performance) you can do "stuff" extraordinarily cheap and quick. We've just developed some apps in 1 day of dev which would take 3-4 months of traditional development. One which would be a "years" prospect, we knocked off in less than two weeks. Amazing stuff, and your only cost is licensing your access to the service. Configuration, not customization FTW!