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Trying to define cloud computing or even identify its benefits is just as difficult as trying to catch a real cloud. For midsized business, however, a lot of advantages over normal hosting services become clearer as the industry beings to become more prominent. Cloud computing as it is known these days can make a company seem bigger to its clients and reduce the costs and footprint in IT operations.But people still have a lot of reasons to be sceptical particularly given the regular news on outages affecting the major providers. There is also the constant issue of data security. But as the technology beings to gain substance, many find it important to consider going for the cloud as an option.First, we need to clarify what cloud computing really is. In essence, people consider it a re-wrapping of outsourcing data center operations along with the application service provider model that has failed in the previous decade. A lot of businesses providing Software as a Service (SaaS) market their solutions as “cloud.” In a lot of ways, it actually is cloud computing. If you’re pushing customer relationship management, email or any other application to an SaaS provider in lieu of in-house hosting, then it is considered ‘cloud.’But the actual benefits of cloud computing come from its ability to allow users to approach a provider and quickly provision the capability as it is needed. For instance, you can use or unload resources as is necessary. In case of a spike in traffic as in the case of e-commerce websites on the Monday following Thanksgiving, you can provision for more computer power. When things go back to normal, you can go back to your normal load.