BANGALORE, INDIA: Today’s SMB operates in a highly competitive and increasingly technology driven market. Operational efficiency is naturally a high priority for small and medium businesses to stay ahead and emerging technologies like cloud and virtualization have a crucial role in determining the same.
Cloud computing in particular, offers many advantages in terms of flexibility, agility and on-demand resources that can give organizations a real competitive edge. Cloud as a cost effective technology also fits in comfortably within the strained IT budgets of the SMBs. Also Read: Cloud computing to be teenaged in 2012
The interest levels around cloud adoption are rising, amongst SMBs. Factors such as increased agility and fewer burdens on IT teams are making this a profitable option. The first step towards cloud adoption is server virtualization and SMBs are increasingly considering the adoption of this technology.
The Symantec 2011 Small Business Virtualization Poll revealed that about 72 per cent of SMBs, across the Asia Pacific and Japan regions are considering deploying server virtualization.
Cloud computing allows SMBs to dynamically scale their computing capability without having to invest in costly infrastructure. According to IDC predictions - by 2012, customer spending on IT cloud services will grow almost threefold, to $42 billion and account for nine per cent of revenues in five key market segments (business applications, application development/deployment, system infrastructure software, storage and Servers).
However, are the SMBs ready for cloud adoption? How do they acquire the requisite information about cloud adoption and its safe, convenient usage?
It is important that SMBs gain a better understanding of the cloud computing options available to them and accordingly decide their approach towards successful adoption. SMBs need to recognize that they will be going through significant changes to the way they do business, and need to be sure to conduct a thorough evaluation before they make the transition.
As we witness the growing market in the area of Cloud Computing, no doubt in next five to eight years most of the applications will be on the cloud. At the same time, Cloud has made it possible for an enterprise to reduce their investments on hardware and also has made the work of a developer easier. Check out this special to know more about the growth of Cloud Computing arena and how cloud is contributing to software development.
Of late, a lot of hype have been building around the word 'Cloud' and the latest to come in the picture is 'cloud storage', also called storage-as-a-service (SaaS).Storage-as-a-service, will this be an instant success or will it take its own time to be a mainstream technology, needs to probed. Read More
Of late, a lot of hype have been building around the word 'Cloud' and the latest to come in the picture is 'cloud storage', also called storage-as-a-service (SaaS).
Storage-as-a-service, will this be an instant success or will it take its own time to be a mainstream technology, needs to probed. Read More
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