The cloud is the enhancement of the internet through the addition of specialised resources from raw computing power to Web 2.0 applications that users can link to remotely. It offers the scope to harness a hundredfold increase in computing power both more cheaply and more effectively.

The Jericho Forum has already seen examples of how easy it is to do this – no big project plan, no procurement of equipment, no lengthy budget hold-ups and sign-offs. Just a couple of hundred bucks to put through on an expenses claim and you have bought instant results and saved money.