What Keeps Small Business Out of the Cloud?
April 6, 2015
Grazed from SmallBusinessComputing. Author: Aleksandr Peterson.
According to a recent estimate by research firm Markets and Markets, the global cloud computing industry will be worth more than $121 billion in 2015, reflecting a 26.2 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Everywhere you turn, people are talking about cloud software, cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, and cloud storage, but it’s far more than a cultural fad.
Cloud technology has veritably transformed the way people manage their lives and businesses, whether they’re storing files in a Google Drive or purchasing a cloud-hosted business productivity suite. Gartner has gone so far as to predict the demise of traditional IT sourcing and a complete transition to cloud office systems before the end of the year…
But cloud technology has swarmed the IT market so fast that its left some people behind. We’re talking about the skeptics, the fearful, I’m-happy-with-what-I-have business owners. Plenty of organizations still use Windows XP and the same legacy CRM software (or HR system, project management tool, etc.) they’ve used for years. After all, they own the license to it, and they know where the data’s stored—in their server closet, behind their firewall, on their private network…
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