The Forecast for Cloud Computing

March 5, 2008 from CIO Insight – “Thanks to the phenomenon known as cloud computing, businesses can rent access to applications and IT infrastructure that reside on the Internet, pay for them on a subscription or per-use basis and provide employees with access to information from anywhere at any time with nothing more than a connected device…

But theory isn’t reality, and just because cloud computing holds promise doesn’t mean that’s going to translate into practical solutions for real business technology challenges—at least, not anytime soon...”

180 View – There are a number of success stories in the clouds with Salesforce.com and NetSuite, and we believe there will be a lot more action up there.