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The cloud can have substantial benefits for small and midsize businesses. In addition to saving money, you can get more out of your apps

Apple is bringing cloud storage to the mainstream with iCloud, but iCloud is not the only game in town.

The biggest threat cloud computing providers present to IT organizations is that they raise the bar for IT management. If a cloud provider can get a server up in eight seconds when it takes the IT organization two weeks, IT will be seen as hopelessly ineffective--and ripe for a complete teardown.

Google Cloud Storage, announced Tuesday, allows you to store your company's business data online for a minimal cost. You can access your data from anywhere, you don't have to engage in costly server hardware management, and the largest tech giant in the world protects your data. All of this opens up cloud data storage to small and medium sized businesses as well as the enterprise-sized companies that were relying on it in the past.

The ever-growing number of cloud computing providers, combined with the pressure to select just the right service to prevent catastrophic IT and career failure, prevents many CIOs from moving forward with their cloud computing plans. CIO.com blogger and cloud computing expert Bernard Golden explains how IT leaders can keep their cloud plans moving forward.

If you are a Web designer, graphic designer, or other creative professional, most likely you work with the Adobe suite of products. Up until now, you haven't been able to migrate your work to your tablet PC of choice. That's about to change. Adobe on Tuesday announced two products available in the coming months that will drastically shift how creative professionals will work: Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Touch Apps for tablets.

Webroot is delivering protection for PCs, smartphones, and tablets with the new cloud-based SecureAnywhere products.

The release of a new browser these days is more likely to elicit yawns than zeal, but Amazon changed that with the release of Silk for its new Fire tablet. While the fundamental idea of splitting a browser's functions between a mobile device and the cloud has been tried by others, most notably Opera, the Internet's largest retailer has taken that idea to a new scale.

Does cloud-based backup really makes sense when you're making small, frequent changes to a very large file?

Cloud computing, with its emphasis on massive scale and efficiency, is changing the entire cost and design structures of data centers.