Wall Street Journal: The cloud offers people the chance to unload their data-storage and computing chores onto somebody else’s machines. But is doing all of that unloading a good idea?
In recent years, more people have been taking advantage of systems that let them store and share files online, or run common software applications over the Web instead of on their local computer. For an idea of the size of the cloud market, and how much it has expanded over the past few years, consider some numbers from a recent survey by comScore Inc.