How Has Cloud Computing Changed Business? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Now that we've been floating around in the digital ether for a few years, what have we learned? How has cloud computing affected company bottom lines? Has it as a matter of fact made operations "greener?" Why do most companies move into the cloud to begin with?

Business research company CSC commissioned a survey of IT decision makers in eight countries to find out the motivations behind their move to cloud computing systems and its effects on their businesses. The data they distilled might surprise you, and it's all packed neatly into the infographic below.

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It may be one of the research world's most expensive efforts to give something away: Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday that it's making its webOS mobile system available as open-source software that anyone can use and modify freely.