Undoubtedly, cloud computing is a hot technology topic that holds benefits
for businesses across a variety of industries, including manufacturing,
distribution, retail and service companies. Harnessing the power of the cloud
to implement cost-effective information technology (IT) solutions can provide
bottom-line benefits to corporations both large and small.
Cloud computing is often touted for its simplicity at the end-user level,
since corporations are removed from the foundation technology. In other
words, the infrastructure is concealed from the users, who relinquish
hardware and software management responsibilities to an internal or external
cloud provider. [1] That said, cloud computing is virtualized, shared,
scalable, Internet-based resources, such as software and information, that
are supplied to users in a delivery model very similar to the one utilized by ... (more)