In an article (“Disasters — Always Prepare for the Worst”) that appeared last month in Agency Sales magazine, several reps described what they were or were not doing to prepare their businesses for survival following a natural or man-made disaster. In a number of conversations with reps, the subject of Cloud computing was raised as a logical step to take to protect agencies. The following article, which originally appeared in InfoWorld (www.infoworld.com), provides a primer on that subject.

Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his … Read the rest