It’s 2014. The Year of the Cloud. Some of us still aren't sure if the Cloud is right for us. But how do I know when it’s the right time for me? (By the way, we show you exactly what you need to know about the cloud to help you with this decision in our free cloud report here, shameless plug over).

I see it everywhere, it’s all around me.

The cloud offers several great advantages: accessibility, collaboration, storage and backup are just a few. Now many of us already know this, the amazing thing is what different industries are accomplishing with these capabilities. Each industry, be it legal, healthcare or financial have all been finding ways to retrofit these capabilities to their specific needs.

There's an old joke that goes: How do you eat an elephant? Well, one bite at a time of course! This approach can also apply to companies considering moving from in-house IT to the cloud in support of their business. It can be a daunting and drawn out process dealing with the integration, security and data privacy concerns that come with moving fully into the cloud.

It was a great Father’s Day this year. The temperature was perfect and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. However, no matter the weather or what we did to celebrate it seemed the Cloud was following us around everywhere we went. Let’s take a look at how the Cloud changed even my Father’s Day:

First on the agenda was a Father’s Day classic that technology could never change; Breakfast in bed.

Not all clouds and computing service delivery products are the same. What are the different types of cloud computing, and what options do you have available to you as the consumer? A daunting question indeed. There is a lot of marketing jargon that really takes some effort just to understand.

Earlier in the year, I wrote a blog about why 2014 is the perfect time for SMBs to move to the cloud. Now, as I look at the 2014 calendar, it shows me that we are almost half way through the year and summer is just about here! In my article, I wrote about one of the most significant technology advances in 25 years that really took off full swing in 2013, and how now it is not only easy but now extremely important for small to medium sized businesses (SMB) to move to the cloud right away.

Big data has already transformed government and industry, granting never before seen insight into how the world works. Now doctors and the medical world are beginning to apply this new insight into cancer treatment. The American Society of Clinical Oncologists now has a working prototype for a "learning health system" called CancerLinQ. This system collects and analyzes cancer care data from the millions of patients that are treated for cancer each year from around the country.

IT can be expensive, but most of the time it is a necessary expense. The most frustrating part about IT is not how expensive it can be, but how unpredictable these expenses are. Spending $10,000 on a new server is a pain but if you are able to budget for this expense and know when it is coming it becomes much more manageable.

Its that time of year again, beach season is here and its time to get back in shape. Whenever I am at the gym I seem to notice more people have extra devices attached to them collecting all kinds of information about their workouts. It is a daily reminder of how entwined data and the cloud is becoming with our lives.

Ever wonder how much data is being stored in the cloud? I'll give you a hint, it is a mind boggling amount. Here is a great infogrpahic that shows just how much there is and what the future holds for all of this data.