An article by Todd R. Weiss written on an HP site titled; Small Business Cloud Challenge: Getting the IT Talent You Need
To quote the opening line;
With a typically tiny IT staff, it’s often tough for small businesses to find the time and resources to develop and begin a real cloud computing strategy
The article continues on describing the challenges facing SME’s in attracting ‘cloud engineer’ talent. (what is a cloud engineer anyway?)
Yes, I believe that the information in that article is wrong, and I have that belief for the reason I wrote here. To summarize that post, if you are a smaller business with limited or no technology staff, you take a huge capex and opex hit buying some kind of enterprise software tool – or you spend a monthly Opex expense and rent it online from the likes of Salesforce.com or Netsuite that can grow with you as you need it.
For larger SME’s, your IT teams already have the virtualization and development skills, the learning curve to move that effort to the ‘cloud’ is definitely not beyond the skills of your team.
As this article by Brian Hopkins at Forrester Research states;
Many SMBs I talk to are adopting a cloud-first policy and eschewing investment in big enterprise systems,
And don’t take my word for it, the December 5th edition of eWeek** has an article by Chris Preimesberger that states;
.. the menu and drag-and-drop user interfaces have become so familiar and easy to use that coding and scripting applications and cloud service have basically become a thing of the past.
For small to medium enterprises, the only question I have; Why would you not look at this cloud computing?
**The print edition of the periodical, I attempted to find the digital edition on their website, but searching by issue date and author name failed to locate it
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