More Hardware-as-a-Service

Amazon offers storage on-line - $0.15 per gigabyte of storage used per month, plus $0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred

Microsoft rolls out a pay-as-you-go service aimed at bringing computing to consumers in poorer countries

Just like companies like salesforce.com brought out SaaS before larger software vendors, non-traditional players are bringing out hardware-as-a service before the IBMs and the HPs. Only a matter of time before corporations look at HaaS, not just individual consumers.