Well Yes i agree that cloud is being used as just a marketing gimmick by majority of service providers. Most of the users were using cloud in form of google docs , gmail and others and were still not aware of the same. but what we cannot disagree of is that cloud computing has serious business benefits especially for Small Businesses
http://www.myrealdata.com/cloud-computing-and-small-business.html
http://www.myrealdata.com/application-hosting-cost-efficiency.html
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