Just when you thought you understood hosted solutions and software-as-a-service, the technology industry has moved on to cloud computing. Over the last two years there have been all kinds of announcements of cloud computing companies with a wide variety of capabilities, the most notable being Apple’s announcement in May of its iCloud offering.
So, what is all this talk of “applications in the cloud?” What is it and, more importantly, what does it mean to brokers and our HR clients?