OpenWeb 04/02/2012 (a.m.)
SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds
Interesting chart describes the massive transition of small and medium sized businesses to the Cloud. Cloud based eMail and messaging leads the way. Top two reasons for the great transition? Cost reduction and productivity improvement. Unfortunately this article fails to describe what this great transition to the Cloud means to legacy productivity systems - most of which are provided and provisioned by Microsoft. What happens to desktop and workgroup based business systems when the local data and transaction processing server systems are moved to the Cloud? How are desktop and workgroup systems re written or migrated? Another factor missing from this article is any discussion of what happens to productivity when communications, content and collaborative computing are interoperably entwined throughout the application layer? We know that the legacy Windows productivity platform seriously lacked communications capabilities. This fact greatly reduced expected productivity gains. excerpt: Microsoft commissioned the study of 3,000 small and medium sized businesses in 13 countries. The survey was conducted by Wayland, Mass.-based research firm Edge Strategies. The most commonly used cloud services are email, instant messaging, voice communications, and backup. Edge also looked at SMB cloud plans over the next three years and the same cloud services also are in the IT plans of those embracing the cloud. From this data, it certainly could be argued that SMBs seem to be quick to embrace the cloud in order to enhance communication. It makes sense: in small business, communication is key to ensure rapid growth. The biggest motivators for migration to the cloud among SMBs is to save money (54 percent), followed by increases in productivity. Decision makers also mentioned flexibility as a fairly common response. Of those already using the cloud, 59 percent reported productivity increases as a result. SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds http://betanews.com/2012/04/01/smb-cloud-adoption-begins-to-acclerate-study-finds/
- - By Gary Edwards
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