IceWEB today released additional details supporting its irrefutable position of strength and rapid growth potential in the $100 billion data storage market. As we talked about in our original report, IWEB has made significant advancements in key areas of the business over the past six months, including sales and marketing, hardware and software product development, customer support, strategic partnerships and finance.

Click here to learn how Cybernet is releasing RapidCompute, Pakistan's first cloud computing service. Cybernet Corporate Sales Vice President Imran Khan explained that cloud computing leads to an almost immediate reduction in initial and running costs; in installation and management times; while the increased scalability and flexibility makes it ideal for big businesses that want to focus more on their core

Click here to learn how NextCloud is taking advantage a Connecticut Innovations program to bring cloud computing data centers home. Johnathan Reeves, CEO of NextCloud answers key questions about the decision to open operations in Wallingford, CT.

Click here to learn how cloud computing company Iomart has almost doubled earnings through acquisitions of other cloud services companies. Iomart says the next big buzz word is Big Data. Worth watching.

How strange and downright cruel life can be. On the day following what could be described as the company's finest hour, i.e. winning the Storage Hardware Product of the Year Award over ALL the unified storage industry's giants, the never-say-die CEO who regenerated the company and its product line suddenly and tragically dies.

The IceWeb team reached me with this news late in the afternoon Friday—I was on plane and unreachable till 3pm. John R. Signorello, IceWEB (OTCBB: IWEB) Chairman and CEO, passed away Friday from a genetic heart condition in his Northern Virginia home. He was 45.

Like we said in our research coverage initiation, the IceWeb unified storage solution was for US at NBT the best price-for-storage value we had ever found for our unified unstructured data storage problems.

Well now the prestigious worldwide Data Centre Solutions organization agrees. Winning Best in Show with them is like an Oscar in the movie world.

Click here to learn why Sangamesh Vadagave thinks Microsoft is a good buy based on its direction in the cloud space. This is a good analysis of the strategy at Microsoft and its potential impact on the stock price.

Click here to learn more about the disconnect many CIO's and CEO's are having over cloud computing strategy. This article reports on a recent survey published by McKinsey & Company on how companies should be looking at cloud from an investment perspective and the different perspectives held by CIO's and CEO's.

Click here to learn how to right size the cloud services you need. IBM says there is a new class of managed services that allow for more efficient purchasing and use of cloud services. Learn more here.

This is what I love about the insurgent disruptors we love to follow and recommend to emerging growth investors at NBT—they get stuff done FAST.

Our newest emerging growth play IceWeb, Inc. (IWEB) announced a very sought after addition to their IceWeb unified storage systems...one that even NBT was asking for—EASY to manage Microsoft Directory rights management.

Initiating Coverage: IceWeb, Inc. (IWEB) Target 2013 $2.25

NBT is initiating coverage of unified storage company with our initial target of $2.25 or 10X projected 2013 sales of $45 million in their low cost/high efficiency unified data storage systems.

Click here to see what Forbes Contributing Editor Joe McKendrick thinks are the questions you need to ponder when considering a move to the cloud. How big of a "game changer" will it be for you company. He says to ask yourself with respect to your company; 1) How service oriented are we? 2) Are we capable of managing a variety of clouds? 3) Do we have an information strategy?

Click here to learn the unique perspective of Dan Dieterle on cloud computing and hosted services.

Click here to learn who CRN believes are the top 100 cloud computing vendors and much more. There are some great lists for 2010, 2011, and 2012 associated with this article. This covers a large swath fo the players in the field and some may prove to be worthy of your investment dollars.