The cloud computing model is not just pie-in-the-sky. Rather, power, hardware and personnel costs, plus a shortage of space in datacenters, are giving rise to the model. In Cloud computing begins to emerge from the haze, Bill Snyder explains it as “an option when there’s a need to complete a resource-heavy project without buying hardware or hiring personnel that won’t be needed later.”“Cloud computing is a new IT outsourcing model that doesn’t yet meet the criteria of enterprise IT and isn’t supported by most of the key corporate vendors,” explains Forrester Research analyst James Staten. “Infrastructure and operations professionals can try to ignore it, as it is just in its infancy, but doing so may be a mistake as cloud computing is looking like a classic disruptive technology.” Software Development