Why the Cloud fits best in 2010 with SMB

Clould is quite simply the single most important advancement of the computing age since the introduction of personal computers into corporate America.


But the big guys (large enterprises with 500 employees and above), see this recent phenomenon as amounting to little more than the next progression in outsourcing IT infrastructure. A more elaborate incarnation of a hosted service, so to speak, and therefore another cost reduction opportunity.


Why is this true? Well, large enterprises have CIOs who in turn have huge intellectual property investments in people, product and footprint that will require several years to unravel from.


Even if a large enterprise CIO was predisposed to redeploy all of his IT services to the cloud, a relatively elaborate blueprint defining how to get from here to there would be required first.


And most large enterprise CIOs are not thinking that way. Most are going to be quite deliberate in targeting appropriate workloads for redeployment over time. It's my belief they will be forced to make the leap before they're entirely comfortable with the idea.


In a any case, there's nothing wrong with the cost cutting perspective although it's a gross underestimation of the power of the cloud.


SMBs on the other hand, are embracing the cloud as a atrategic differentiator, bringing capability to them that was previously unaffordable and in turn leveling the playing field dramatically between them and the much larger companies who heretofore were the only ones who could afford these capabilities.


SMBs are not encumbered with decades of commitment to in house IT innovation.


But this is just the beginning. What we're seeing is that as more and more SMB companies redeploy their IT services into the cloud, the collaborative aspects of the internet are beginning to take hold. The result is that the community aspects of the cloud for the services that can and should reside outside the firewall are paving the way for the rapid advancement of entirely new capability for the businesses wise enough to take advantage.


I've said before that the last great single tenant client server type, 1990's application has already been built. Up and down the eastern and western seaboards where new technology offerings are spawning, every new company is adopting cloud and developing new capabilities using it's model.


If your an SMB business with 500 employees or less, it's time for you to give serious consideration to redeploying your IT services into the cloud.


Call us! We can get you there!!


Dave Rice CEO, TrueCloud

www.truecloud.com