Soaring costs of running business operations, economic recession, volatile US currency, etc. – all are becoming factors to create the most hostile environments for business enterprises across the planet. The enterprises are embracing cultural shifts in their outsourcing ventures by focusing more on breakthrough technologies such as Cloud Computing.

Many view that apps will become more popular than the web, this was proven by a survey focused on the future of apps and web. What do companies find in mobile apps that make them more appealing than traditional ones? In these debates, how does cloud computing come into play?

A recent CompTIA report, SpiceWorks Voice of IT: State of SMB IT, shows how SMB organizations are adapting to business growth with virtual servers.

Award-winning writer Randy Bias talks about not only what cloud computing is, but what it isn’t in the Cloudscaling Blog.

GMO Cloud teams from US and Japan had a great time at Cloud Expo 2011! We enjoyed a wide range of session topics and met with Cloud partners and vendors.

Here are a few things to consider when balancing out the needs of your business while looking at the various pros and cons for each of the three types of cloud hosting solutions.