White Paper: Why Growing SMBs Cannot Ignore The Cloud

The white paper is based on a roundtable in which growing SMBs explain how and why they're using the cloud.

"Leaders in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) recognise that technology is critical to supporting growth, productivity and competitiveness. But high capital costs, access to scarce skills, and the retention of legacy IT systems often make it difficult to maximise the return on investment and benefits that modern technology offers.

Cloud computing offers growing businesses a potential solution to this dilemma. By using software applications accessed across the web, firms can take advantage of functionality that would otherwise only be affordable by large enterprises, and typically on a pay-as-you-go basis. Issues such as buying hardware, providing technical support, and recruiting specialist IT skills are removed, allowing decision-makers to concentrate on sales, growth and profitability."