Cloud computing can help optimize a company's capital investments by reducing its costs for hardware, software and real estate, resulting in a much lower total cost of ownership and, ultimately, a whole new way of looking at the economics of operational IT.

Cloud is here, it's real and it's rapidly maturing to the point where the benefits are starting to appeal to those looking to solve enterprise risk and economic issues.

Cloud is here, it's real and it's rapidly maturing to the point where the benefits are starting to appeal to those looking to solve enterprise risk and economic issues.