The rate of data creation continues to soar exponentially: every day, 2.5 billion gigabytes of data is made around the world. All of this data needs to go somewhere, and lately that is the cloud. By 2015, end-user spending on cloud services could be more than $180 billion.
The cloud has changed everything about how we work and interact with technology and the savvy investor should look at trends in the industry to see where opportunities lie. Here, here, and here are good places to start.