Cloud computing is great for software company shareholders ... "With distributed data you have no idea where it is, and the whole Google business model is that you are buying cheap hardware ...

While often used broadly, the term cloud ... on-premises — and they can instantly scale the cloud resources they consume up or down as needed. According to Foundry’s Cloud Computing Study ...

which can be difficult for on-premise servers to provide because information technology (IT) teams cannot scale up the required computing resources on demand. According to Gartner, when it comes to ...