CIO - At DEMO Spring 2010, which kicked off on Monday in Palm Springs, six startup companies won the chance to present their big cloud computing ideas. For cloud industry watchers, there was one piece of good news: No one debated the definition of cloud in the presentations.
Still, the debate about whether any old SaaS app is really "cloud" was definitely being waged by the attendees. And the apps that generated the most crowd buzz were what some people might call "hard-core cloud," involving cloud storage and large data-set analysis on the fly.
Here's a look at all six cloud companies, including CIO.com's picks for the most intriguing of the bunch: AirSet, Cloudscale and FathomDB.
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