What Are the Factors Stopping SMBs Moving to the Cloud?
It seems you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing about the benefits of the cloud. It has now reached that special status, like Apple, a search for “Cloud” will bring you information on cloud computing before you get to any search results talking about meteorological phenomena.
One of the things we repeatedly hear about cloud computing is how great it is for SMBs. It will cut costs! It will allow instant scaleability! It will let the operation you’ve just started up in your back room take on Google, Amazon and Apple with your mighty cloud processing power! Yet, despite all the hype, many smaller businesses are extremely reluctant to give cloud computing a go. If the cloud is truly going to realise its potential as the revolutionary game-changer everyone seems to think it is, its evangelists are going to have to realise why people are reluctant to move over, and ask what they can do to assuage those doubts.
So why are people reluctant to move to the Cloud?