http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means-031

http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means-031

This link leads you to what Cloud computing is and what  advantages it offers. This information helped me to make the decision of  designing an application that can then be loaded onto the cloud and allow users to access it through web-bases services.