Managing Technology

The Wall Street Journal ran a special section in Monday's paper about cloud computing....

'Cloud Computing': What Exactly Is It, Anyway?
Everybody's talking about it. Here's what you need to know.

For a lot of small-business owners, "cloud computing" is the latest IT buzzword to leave them scratching their heads. To demystify things, here's a primer for companies looking to wade into cloud services for the first time.

The article includes some staggering stats:

• About 3.2% of U.S. small businesses, or about 230,000 businesses, use cloud services.
• Another 3.6%, or 260,000, plan to add cloud services in the next 12 months.
• Small-business spending on cloud services will increase by 36.2% in 2010 over a year ago, to $2.4 billion from $1.7 billion.

Cloud solutions can be extremely beneficial to small businesses and start-ups, since they do not have a large amount of capital invested in on-premise servers. They can migrate easily to an on-demand solution and quickly deploy cloud solutions much faster than larger corporations.

Caturano and Company offers cloud computing services and can help small businesses create a strategic roadmap - attend our upcoming event to learn more!