While the Northeast was worrying about real clouds spawned by a murderous hurricane, those of us outside the storm zone were able to ponder allegorical clouds and their impact on mobile device apps and strategy for enterprise IT.

At this week’s Twitter Tuesday #MobileBizChat  live event, we focused on the relationship between mobile apps and cloud IT, and how this love/hate affair impacts enterprise mobility strategies.

Here are the questions we asked you during our Oct. 30, 2012, Twitter Chat session, around the topic of “Are Mobile and Cloud Technologies a Match Made in Heaven? (Or an Unholy Alliance Forged In …”:

• What aspects of cloud have the biggest impact on mobile users and apps?
• What are the advantage for apps that heavily leverage the cloud? Any examples of good cloud-aware apps?
• What's the dark side of relying too heavily on the cloud for your apps? Examples of any cloud-happy apps gone awry?
• What needs to change -- on the mobile side and in the cloud -- to give users the best of both worlds?

Here are some highlights of what our Tuesday Twitter chat participants had to say:

• Bitzer_Walt  For users, cloud creates an increased focus on collaboration. It shifts the culture of the participants.
• Bitzer_Walt  Personal clouds create opportunities for users to explore a variety of #BYOD work-arounds.. more security liabilities.
• Bmkatz  A1. If you are focusing on cloud capabilities for the consumer vs what they enable an app you're doing it wrong.
• DanShappir @bmkatz @Bitzer_Walt @pcalento totally agree. Cloud is resources that apps can (and should) utilize, be they mobile or not
• Framehawk  @eMobileHub We actually use cloud ourselves in our offering. Enables enterprises to deliver mobile access to existing apps
• jayfry3  @DanShappir (Facebook) bailed on #HTML5, (Salesforce.com) went all in. If it improves: good. (People) will still look to minimize their (specific) tradeoffs
• jayfry3  @Bitzer_Walt You're right. Having things in the cloud definitely changes ppl's mindset. Think mobile, think collab from start
• LIAInsight   The only realistic way to limit #BYOD is for the enterprise to deploy a uniform tablet solution.
• pcalento  #Cloud represents a complete enterprise transformation. Is it a mobile enabler? In part, but impact much greater.
• tcrawford   The advantages gained from #cloud are only possible if you architect for them. #Sandy proves many still need to learn.  
• Thepoettrap  There should be an industry of browsers & your OS should be subliminally switching you on a page by page basis.

To read the entire transcript, just go to Twitter.com and follow hashtag #MobileBizChat.

Enterprise Mobile Hub’s Twitter Tuesday chats take place every Tuesday, starting at 11am PT/2pm ET. Next week’s topic is “Let's Get Political: Who Gets Your Mobile Vote?” Please join us, and join the conversation. (And of course, don’t forget to get and vote in the REAL election on Nov. 6 -- it’s every American’s right to choose!)