Maybe a lot of us have been sort of working "in the clouds" and just not thought of it that way.

The company I work for is located in New Orleans. It is supported by our parent company (located in Houston) on corporate servers which are in Austin, Texas.

This puts the storage of both our data and application software in the hands of others, on equipment we don't own, with access to the data and software through communications lines that we also don't own.*

So, from a practical standpoint, how is that so far different from being "in the cloud"?

(*Certainly not my ideal way of doing things given our experience with "inclement weather caused service interruptions" [read hurricanes], but not my call...)