Í leiðara nýjasta heftis Economist má lesa hvers vegna gagnaver stórra tölvufyrirtækja eru heitt mál.

Þróunin er sú að vista gögn „í skýjunum“, það er að segja í gagnaverum fremur en heimilistölvum og fartölvum.

Þetta er áhugaverð pæling, eða eins og segir í leiðaranum sem má lesa í heild sinni hér:

„THERE is nothing the computer industry likes better than a big new idea—followed by a big fight, as different firms compete to exploit it. “Cloud computing” is the latest example, and companies large and small are already joining the fray. The idea is that computing will increasingly be delivered as a service, over the internet, from vast warehouses of shared machines. Documents, e-mails and other data will be stored online, or “in the cloud”, making them accessible from any PC or mobile device. Many things work this way already, from e-mail and photo albums to calendars and shared documents.“