A century ago, electrical utility companies separately generated their own power; then, the electricity grid allowed them to share capacity and infrastructure.  Cloud computing is much the same.  It allows computation to be shared over the Internet, and the advantage is a bargain basement for information data handling.  Recently, pharma giant Eli Lilly used IBM’s cloud computing service to analyze data from a drug development clinical trial.  What might have cost tens of thousands of dollars in using traditional servers, cost only $89.  MORE ALSO SEE