By: Howard M. Cohen, eWeek
Consumers who have been using online services for more than a decade may have become confused when popular software providers such as Microsoft started declaring “to the cloud” in reference to just about every imaginable online service. The typical consumer computer user didn’t realize they were using what is now called cloud services. An August report from The NPD Group found that while only 22 percent of U.S. consumers claimed familiarity with the term “cloud computing,” more than three-quarters were using services that could be characterized as cloud-computing services. Primary among these consumer cloud activities were email, tax preparation, online gaming and photo and video sharing.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Cloud-Computing-Forecasting-First-Steps-of-Adoption-486021/
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