We live in the digital age. Many factors are driving change, but none is more important
than the rise of Internet technologies (Friedman, 2005, 2008). As it continues to
develop, the Internet is changing the ways that people live and work. In the workplace,
the Internet gives everyone in the organization, at any level and in every functional
area, the ability to access an expansive array of information—instantaneously from
anywhere. Indeed, the percentage of the world population with access to the Internet
has increased from 18% to 35% just from 2006 to 2011 (“A Wired World,” 2012). As
for storing all of this information—from archiving and backup to content distribution,
production, and remote processing—consider the growth of cloud computing.