All too often I read articles that use the terms digital signatures or electronic signatures as if they were the same thing — which they are not. It will be useful to briefly point out and clarify the significant differences between the two terms for ease of future discussions.

Cloud computing increasingly becomes a prevalent IT solution in a variety of markets. According to a recent study done by the application-integration/app-hosting company Hubspan, more than 60 percent of companies surveyed said cloud computing was their strategic direction. Forrester report (April, 2011) emphasized this trend with the prediction that the cloud computing global market will grow from $40.7 billion to more than $241 billion by 2020.

I'm John, the online digital signature service specialist at Secured Signing, the world’s leading provider of User-based PKI Digital Signature SaaS service.