The paper examines the economic impact of the diffusion of a new technology as cloud computing. This will allow firms to rent computing power and storage from service providers and to pay on demand, with a profound impact on the cost structure of all the industries, turning some of the fixed...

Given that data and information have become the most valuable assets of companies that can be efficiently and economically stored in the cloud infrastructure, there is great pressure on business entities to capitalize on this business and technological opportunity. There is a particular pressure...