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Have you been seeing a big demand by SMBs wanting to move to the cloud?
Do you see a big demand by small business for IT companies that can help them migrate their business to the cloud?
This question is from Phil Wainewright's presentation "How the Cloud Transforms IT From Villains Into Heroes" at our 2010 Focus Interactive Summit: Breaking Through Cloud Computing.
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For sure! It cuts costs and allows them to focus more on the core of their business.
I think the reality is that SMBs have been on the cloud for some time now, and are the main drivers of the largest and fastest growth trajectory surrounding cloud technology. Adopting SaaS early on, many SMBs have contributed to the rapid expansion of SaaS providers like Salesforce.com. Now small and medium businesses are looking to put much of their IT into the cloud, if only for the sole reason of saving money.
Without the opportunities available in the cloud, most SMBs would have to go without core enterprise systems such as CRM, ERP, calendar sharing, e-mail, and even business intelligence. But what they have come to realize early on, is that all of these can be enjoyed out of the cloud for a few dollars a day.
What’s more, the increasing availability of clouds have opened opportunities for small technology-oriented startups to rent virtual data centers and avoid the huge investment needed to purchase hardware, software, and rent data center space. A million dollars used to be the minimum for a start-up to prepare for its development… With the options in cloud computing today, that money can be put to better use elsewhere.
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