Sharp rise in “cloud computing” services. - The cloud computing market (which effectively means the outsourcing of data management to an external company) will grow more quickly than expected this year, according to forecasts by the Gartner information technology research company. Global corporate spending in communication and information technology is expected to rise by 3%, to $3 628 million in 2012, instead of the 2.5% previously forecast. Although spending on computing services alone...