Recently, when I walked into my local grocery store, a huge cloud of dust and loud drilling noises greeted me. Beyond the haze, there was that familiar sign that we have all read if we've ever driven a car on a highway or visited any public place in our lifetime. There it was, that yellow sign with those dark letters in all-caps that spelled out “PARDON OUR PROGRESS.”

technology. Tea in hand, I browsed through some literature on conventional design versus cloud technologies. As you will see, the conventional design required companies to invest heavily in physical assets such as servers and other related hardware components. Now, businesses are getting rid of the hassles of buying and maintaining physical assets or software solution with Cloud technologies.