I recently decided to look into cloud service for a customer that looked to be a good fit. While there is a lot of talk ("This will be up and running soon!"), the reality I found was very slim. Outside the fortune 500 or 1000 groups, I saw nothing that offered any real benefit to a small business over local services. I did find one offering that looked good and the customer is happy with it. That falls way short of 'cloud everywehere' we are being bombarded with by Microsoft and other mainstream players.

Like many new technologies, the marketing departments are way out in front of the reality department.