I spend a lot of time on airplanes, en route to give conference keynotes and other such briefings, most of which are centered on the question of "What's this cloud computing thing and what will it do for me?"

On one rare recent occasion, not only did I get to talk about this with just a short drive up the freeway to Los Angeles, but our partner colleagues at American Data Company also did a super job of combining the slideware with the speech. This talk starts with the big picture of the IT economy, lays out both the diversity of cloud computing offerings and also their common tenets, and ends with an update on our Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Custom Cloud perspectives.

Hot Topics in Enterprise Cloud Computing (PaaS and SaaS) from American Data Company on Vimeo.

Best of all, unlike the real thing, a video version of my talk has a "pause" function, and doesn't expect hot coffee before it starts. PDF of the slides available for download as well, for those who want to play our game at home.