Cloud computing and digital technologies, for example, are branded by many as "disruptive." New services and business models sweeping through markets, such as Uber and Airbnb, are called disruptive.

The Economist-IBM report provides some shining examples of companies that are employing cloud computing to not only cut IT costs, but also play a role in disruptive innovation: 1.

Discover how cloud computing revolutionizes business operations with examples like email communication, online storage, collaboration, virtual offices, and affordable processing power.

Because of the huge expense of computers in the 1960s and 1970s, mainframes and minicomputers were time-shared machines, and ...

Cloud computing is one of the easiest ways for business owners to take advantage of some of the latest technologies without spending a fortune on expensive computer parts, software and IT ...

Cloud computing not a disruptive technology in and of itself, but a disruptive IT delivery model which leverages key technology ideas to deliver IT in a much more efficient model.

Another example of cloud computing in action is AWS, said Goldstein. AWS provides cloud services to run Amazon, one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world. The use of cloud computing doesn’t end ...

Strictly speaking, Dropbox isn't an example of cloud computing, a columnist argues. Read why ...

Cloud computing is built for the world of tomorrow, where we each use many different kinds of computing devices: desktop, laptop, cellphone, or tablet.