Small and medium businesses have a lot to gain through adopting cloud computing, a recent research from comScore – sponsored by Microsoft – shows. Not only would these companies benefit from important time and money savings when adopting the cloud, but they also see increased security levels, the aforementioned research shows. According to the survey, which was conducted among both cloud and non-cloud SMBs in the U.S., India, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, most businesses […]
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By 2020, businesses that fail to pare their legacy architecture may find their core businesses disrupted by smaller, nimbler companies who have built on SaaS and cloud computing from the ground up. “They will be unencumbered by a legacy of complexity and costly solutions and will be narrowly focused on their core competencies,” said Frank Wander, senior vice president and CIO at Guardian Life Insurance Co. And there you’ll be with your client/server architectures and […]
Ciaran Treanor, technology director, DANU Technologies, outlines why SMEs, specifically start-ups, can significantly reduce IT spend by accessing IT resources on demand via the cloud. Treanor was one of the speakers at last week’s cloud computing event hosted by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (Ireland) at Trinity College Dublin, which aimed to inform people what the cloud has to offer start-ups and small enterprises, especially those in the non-IT space that may be […]