Clouds seemed to pop up everywhere in 2012, which was a pivotal year for the adoption of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing in the IBM i ecosystem. Vendors making major IBM i cloud announcements (including new clouds and improved clouds) last year include: Abacus Solutions, which launched a new IBM i cloud in May; Connectria Hosting, which launched a new IBM i cloud in April; Sirius Computer Solutions, which launched a new cloud in September; and Xerox, which launched its Power Systems cloud in January.