Why the world's top companies have become so reliant on the cloud

What do General Mills, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Best Buy have in common? For one, they're all using the cloud. And they're certainly not the only top companies doing so. A January 2017 State of the Cloud Survey by software seller RightScale found that companies are now running 79 percent of their workloads on some form of the cloud. Another recent survey by business consulting company Frost & Sullivan suggests that percentage will only grow, as 80 percent of U.S. companies are...