If you suspect that cloud is an over-used marketing term, you’d be right, but to only to an extent. Executed properly, the technologies underlying modern cloud based services provide new and always improving levels of reliability and scale. These technologies drop the barriers to benefit, and in business terms, this opens up new opportunities by…

At least that’s the impression left by ads for cloud services with which we are regularly inundated. The definition of cloud and what it’s good for is still a puzzling concept for many, and to figure out how to put it to good use is unfortunately left to the everyday businessperson. Cloud need not be…