Cloud computing featured in Boston Globe

Another introductory article on the front page of the business section in today’s Boston Globe. It focuses on Massachusetts-based companies and the future of the cloud in large enterprise computing. The author’s conclusion:

It seems small and midsize businesses will be the first to integrate cloud-based services, while bigger companies will take longer to figure out how these services relate to their existing operations, whether they’re secure and reliable enough, and whether they comply with all sorts of regulatory requirements. But the appeal is that cloud-based services can cut the costs of all sorts of IT operations like storage and number-crunching and payment processing, while giving companies the flexibility to simply pay a higher monthly fee as they grow – or pay less when they shrink.