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The article below from the Java Developer’s Journal correctly identifies Cloud Computing as ‘Hosting Evolved’.  The article lists the following key benefits from the client side:

1) Can expand amount of resources applied against a given workload without having to front the capital and without having to build in advance of demand
2) Do not have to build the expertise in areas like HVAC, Electrical and Mission-Critical Facility Design/Operation in-house - let someone else deal with it
3) Can be part of a business continuance and disaster recovery strategy
4) Can enable a stateless computing architecture when coupled with other technologies like VDI

When properly designed, Cloud Computing environments allow you and your company to focus on your business goals and not technology. 

Key Benefits of a robust Cloud Computing platform:

1) Focus on achieving business goals versus fixing software headaches
2) Pilot new efforts with a small initial investment
3) User Scalability built in - 1 to 1,000,000+ users
4) Geographic Scalability built in - no need to co-locate servers, this is already done for you
5) Security built in - look for a SAS 70 certification (Statement on Auditing Standards (SaS) No. 70 Type II certifications, developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).)
6) Multi-currency built in
7) Multi-language built in
8) Disaster recover built in
9) Backups built in
10) Business continuity built in

Economic Downturn Helps Drive Evolution of Cloud Computing
— As providers evolve from traditional hosting they may be facing a window of opportunity in the current, rather dismal, economic outlook: Cloud Computing. In periods of economic uncertainty, especially when the capital for large-scale build-outs may be hard to raise in the debt markets or at least much more expensive to raise people turn to look at other options that enable them to continue to meet end-user and business demands for IT services.