The cloud as the great leveller: bringing enterprise-grade insight to SMBs
February 27, 2015
Grazed from TechRadar. Author: Alistair Forbes.
Over the last several years, the discussions amongst enterprises about the advantages and disadvantages of various cloud models have filtered through to decision-makers in businesses across the UK. Perception, as the adage goes, is reality.
Executives have heard of enterprises fearing that cloud-based solutions can result in sacrificing security, privacy and control of business-critical data, but they have equally seen examples of enterprises relying on cloud computing and enjoying many forms of competitive advantage such as savings in time and cost…
However, this is only scratching the surface: businesses are using cloud solutions to integrate and apply mobile, social, analytics and big data technologies. So what is the truth? Or rather, what are the steps to making sure that when following in enterprise footsteps, they lead to cloud success? The real beauty of cloud services is that they can level the playing field, delivering enterprise-level insight, infrastructure and performance to organisations of all sizes – if deployed correctly…
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