Fool -- Now's the time to invest! David and Tom Gardner's new book reveals their strategy for million dollar wealth. Your portfolio in the clouds At its simplest, cloud computing is computing via the Web rather than your local machine. Full Article at Motley Fool

Look beyond the tumultuous economic storm and you'll see something else forming--cloud computing, a term and concept that took off in 2008. "If you look at Google Trends, 'cloud computing' came out of nowhere in 2008. Full Article at CNET

Over the holidays a reader wrote in mourning for a manuscript he had placed on the Google Docs site. Because he had placed his trust totally in "the cloud," he had not backed up the file, and when it disappeared nobody at Google could help him find it. Full Article at PC Magazine

SAN FRANCISCO -- Todd Pierce recently put his job on the line. Full Article at Louisville Courier-Journal

The decision has turned Genentech, a biotechnology pioneer, into a lab rat for Google and other alternative software services trying to convince skeptical corporate decision makers cloud computing is more than a pie-in-the-sky concept. Full Article at Biloxi Sun Herald

If there was one big trend in 2008 -- and by that we mean the buzz phrase on the lips of every analyst and vendor -- it was cloud computing. As with all new IT trends, levels of adoption were low. But adoption of what, exactly? Full Article at PC World

For all the potential and hype surrounding cloud computing, breaking old habits won't be easy -- particularly with business-software powerhouses Microsoft, IBM Corp. , Oracle Corp. and SAP AG all maneuvering to protect their existing,... Full Article at Data Storage Today

SAN FRANCISCO - Todd Pierce recently put his job on the line. Full Article at MSNBC

Chances are the mobile phone tucked in your pocket, the lightweight laptop in your backpack or the navigation system in your car are under a cloud. Full Article at eWeek