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NEAL VORA AND RAFAEL ZENTENO INTAPP Your Information Is in the Cloud … Now What? I 18 s your head in the clouds? If anything, 2011 has been the "year of the cloud," with plenty of weather and climate metaphors making their way into IT lingo, technology publications and vendor websites. You might have heard of, or are already using, software or services delivered via the cloud, the "false cloud," private clouds, shared clouds or elastic computing clouds. And it's almost "virtually" certain that some visionary is already hard at work building Tech Potpourri ILTA White Paper the "Hey you, get off of my cloud!" cloud, which will no doubt be available through "Silver Lining Solutions" or "Partly Cloudy Software Systems, Inc." But other than a chance for technologists to flex their creative-writing muscles, is the cloud anything more than just a fresh coat of lipstick on last decade's idea of software-as-a-service (SaaS), the application service providers (ASP) of the '90s or even the time- sharing of the '60s?