Cloud Computing Instrumental in Success of SMBs

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Sue Poremba.

Adopting cloud technologies has been a boon for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), according to a new report from Techaisle discussed in a Channel Partners article. "Eighty percent of SMBs in the U.S. say cloud computing contributes to business growth," the article states; "More than 40 percent of SMBs said that business agility and new capabilities are driving SMB cloud adoption," the article added.

This is a change from the past, when SMBs turned to cloud adoption primarily as a way to cut costs. IT-related costs are still helping to lead SMBs toward the cloud, especially in the case of smaller businesses that have moved applications to the cloud because of the opportunity to acquire technologies and applications that would otherwise have been too costly or would have required too much IT staffing. Lower costs, however, are no longer the predominant reason for SMBs turning to cloud computing…

Techaisle refers to this changing focus of cloud adoption as a "perfect storm," one that blends together technologies that are essential for the success of SMBs. Applications in social media, business intelligence and mobile can be driven by solutions that operate in a cloud format…

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