The Economist-IBM report provides some shining examples of companies that are employing cloud computing to not only cut IT costs, but also play a role in disruptive innovation: 1.

Cloud computing is one of the easiest ways for business owners to take advantage of some of the latest technologies without spending a fortune on expensive computer parts, software and IT ...

Cloud computing and digital technologies, for example, are branded by many as "disruptive." New services and business models sweeping through markets, such as Uber and Airbnb, are called disruptive.

Cloud computing not a disruptive technology in and of itself, but a disruptive IT delivery model which leverages key technology ideas to deliver IT in a much more efficient model.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses what cloud agility means and shares examples of the kind of business agility that is fostered by cloud computing.

VMware wants to dominate the cloud just as it's dominating in virtualization, and a flurry of recent technology and business model moves show how it plans to achieve this goal.

Losing Its Silver Lining For over a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reigned supreme as the titan of cloud computing, ...

Turning to the Amazon event, four Amazon customers presented and discussed their use of cloud computing (my discussion of the following is from notes and memory, as the slides are not yet available).

Strictly speaking, Dropbox isn't an example of cloud computing, a columnist argues. Read why ...

Cloud computing is built for the world of tomorrow, where we each use many different kinds of computing devices: desktop, laptop, cellphone, or tablet.