By Ric Telford, Vice President, Cloud Services, IBM
It’s becoming clear that another entry can be added to the pantheon of truly disruptive innovations: cloud computing.

The rise of cloud computing could radically change the way companies manage their technology assets and computing needs. With the continued exponential growth of electronic data, the information infrastructure that exists throughout the world today will not be able to keep up with ongoing demand. It simply doesn’t make sense – from both an economic and environmental perspective – for organizations to build more expensive, energy-hogging data centers to handle computing requirements of today and beyond. This is why cloud computing is an attractive option for enterprises and why the concept has built up so much momentum in recent years.

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