Cloud computing: Five reasons why it matters

Computer users will start storing at least one-third of their content on cloud services by 2016, research firm Gartner has said.Only 7 per cent content was stored in the cloud in 2011, the company said in a report, adding that this number was likely to grow to 36 per cent by 2016.Cloud computing, which is Internet-based, facilitates sharing of technological resources, software and digital information. This emerging field functions on...