The past twelve months have been some of the toughest and most uncertain in living memory. Small businesses have fared particularly badly with banks unwilling to invest or lend money, well documented spending pattern reductions in consumers and belt tightening across all business sectors as a result. At the very same time Cloud Computing hype has been increasing in momentum.
With all of the much publicised benefits of moving to the Cloud you would think that it would have been adopted as a much needed cost cutting measure in more businesses by now. Paying for applications on a pay as you go basis, deferring big capital costs in favour of smaller monthly payments as well as the promise of application availability wherever, whenever and on whatever device the team happened to be using sounds too good to be true. Not to mention getting rid of the expense and administration of having a server sat in the office.
But is this where the transition to Cloud Computinghas stalled? All the arguments are there for Cloud Computing – but in the real world, the world where small businesses just use IT as an enabler for their core operation it’s arguable whether there has been enough of a catalyst for change. It’s not like moving from analogue to digital TV – there’s no deadline after which their systems won’t work.
Planning a cloud computing transition, a cloud strategy may not be top of small business agendas just because everything is working just fine and until that server in the corner of the office goes on the blink or runs out of warranty it may not be a high enough priority. After all – small business owners’ first concern is running their business (whatever that may be) – and in times of recession we all know that takes at least 25 hours a day, 8 days a week just to stay afloat.
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