The cloud hype continues to spread into just about any IT category, whether it's computing infrastructures (IAAS), platforms (PAAS), storage (scaling on-demand), applications (software as a service [SaaS]/cloud software), and even newer categories, such as integration on the cloud (IAAS). The list goes on.

Cloud models are now presenting CIOs with new ways of dealing with the shrinking IT budgets by allowing them basically to move nondiscretionary activities to discretionary.