Information Research Intelligence

Schmidt, who has made a career out of organizing and distributing information, is a major investor in the company, a cloud-research startup that launched this year.

Cx.com provides a way to back up, sync, access and share files from any device or operating system - for instance, Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android or BlackBerry. Using cloud research, the business allows customers to access videos, documents, photos and a variety of other files from any of their remote devices, even if it's not the device on which the file is stored. This innovation is as well meant to protect information should the original device be damaged or destroyed.

Cloud research involves using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage and process data, to put it more exactly than a local server or personal computer.

Robertson, a 20-year veteran of research startups, served as the chief operating officer and chief research officer of Colorado-based Intern Inc., a company as well in the TomorrowVentures portfolio. Robertson, 40, as well co-founded and was CEO of Bizavo, a deep-web-search engine, which launched in 2008.

Critics of cloud research have cited privacy concerns, an issue Robertson has tried to address. Cx.com allows the user complete control of all files and information and allows users to block the company from seeing anything. Cx.com is for all that able to monitor activity however won't necessarily have access to user files.

However, concerns about information safety do after all exist. In a 2009 survey by Information Research Intelligence Corp., 85 percent of corporate clients around the globe said they would not implement a cloud-computing infrastructure in 2009 because of fears that sensitive corporate data cannot be adequately secured.

Report from Alcatel Lucent

According to a report from Alcatel Lucent, a innovation company, cloud computing is considered a form of outsourcing and could pose threats to existing structures within companies and people's jobs. Because of this, many enterprises are faced with internal resistance to adoption, the report said.

Merrill Lynch dubbed 2011 as "the year of the cloud," and estimates the market value of the innovation will reach $113 billion.

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