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Cloud computing is still a nascent field but a host of vendors have sprung up already. Here are some of the most promising cloud-computing vendors you should be watching to see how they can add value to your business.

1. Akamai: The company, founded in 1998, provides a global computing infrastructure for Internet content and application delivery. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Akamai transparently mirrors content from customers servers to its network of servers. It delivers mirrored content to the end use...

Cloud computing is just like the weather; it blows this way and that, and no one really knows exactly where it's going or what the cloud will cover. But looking into a murky crystal ball, one can see trends in cloud computing that deserve attention. Cloud computing may be ill-defined, but it&...

1. Large enterprises are building their own private clouds. IBM, for instance, announced its "Blue Cloud" initiative two years ago. The company has already built 13 massive datacenters around the world and is adding more every quarter. Private cloud services are run in datacenters manag...

In order to achieve the same benefits from CRM as large enterprises, small businesses can employ a cloud strategy to gain all the operational and short-term cost advantages of SaaS (Software as a Service) CRM, and additional benefits available only through the cloud.

Everyone's raving about CRM in the cloud these days, but the lofty talk is really about servers on the ground and services on the Web. Initially, it was a rent-versus-own argument. There are pros and cons to both approaches, but when it comes to rescuing small businesses from a recession-made dry sp...