<p>This post is brought to you by Comcast Business. Follow us @comcastbusiness.</p><p>The cloud has been on the agenda for some years now, so much so that even the government has gotten in on the act with its G-Cloud initiative. Web services are rapidly moving over to become virtual applications running on flexible cloud-based systems.</p><p>Consumers and business alike are keeping their data online "in the cloud", and applications are beginning to be delivered in the same way, such as Google Docs, although many vendors have stopped short of live delivery of applications, and instead offer applications on a subscription model, such as Microsoft Office 365 and the Adobe Creative Cloud.</p><p>Software and services delivered via the cloud have the advantage, in theory at least, of being available wherever you are, through whatever device you happen to have at hand. They become user-centric, rather than device-centric, which means users can work more flexibly, without having to lug a specific portable device with them, or be so tied to their desk. But this also assumes ubiquitous network availability.</p><p><a href="http://www.itproportal.com/2013/12/18/the-impact-of-the-cloud-on-your-network-infrastructure/">Keep reading...</a></p>