Have you noticed the term "In the cloud" popping up everywhere lately?

Cloud computing has been a definition in search of a term, you could say.

At a conference back in 2006, Eric Schmidt of Google described their approach to software as a service (SaaS) as "cloud computing". Although he didn't invent the term, his statement, coupled with Amazon's inclusion of the word "cloud" in its EC2 launch a few weeks later, instantly made the term mainstream.

People still could not define "in the cloud" exactly, but they had a rough idea that it meant delivering "Software as a Service (SaaS)" over the internet through your browser like Gmail, Salesforce, and Amazon. This eliminates the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computers.

Running applications "in the cloud", gives users better mobility, productivity, and access to the data they need anytime, anywhere and with infinite scalability and no capital expenditures for hardware and hosting, maintenance, etc. This is also why Gartner predicts that by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets.

And yes, S2L by Phone is "in the cloud."