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Infographic: Small businesses and the cloud

December 19, 2011, 9:44 AM PST

Takeaway: This infographic offers a quick snapshot of small businesses and their use of cloud software, as well as the top three cloud-friendly cities in the U.S.

This infographic, courtesy of JESS3 and Microsoft365, takes a look at the cloud landscape for small businesses. Infographic resources include data from Gartner, IDC, and Forrester.

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Pretty "children's story" pictures...

wizard57m-cnet 19th Dec 2011

only a child would believe! Yet another blog post with a solution in search
of a problem. Cloud...why not call it what it is...hosted solutions in which you
give some entity somewhere all your data for a monthly fee, that may or may
not be financially feasible. Same old time-share rental of mainframe computing
that we had pre-1982.

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Great information...

Alpha_Dog 19th Dec 2011

...but largely irrelevant or misleading if you live in a rural area or choose not to use Microsoft products.

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It's all evangelism.

seanferd 19th Dec 2011

Look at the pretty pictures! Look at the numbers! (Which we aren't going to validate in any way, probably because we can't.)

See, everyone else is doing it. Now you jump off the bridge, too.

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Really?

trcbit 1st Jun 2012

Where do these guys get their stats from? I have been watching the cloud space for some time an have been hearing some very over stated claims as to how many SMB's are actually using the cloud in their business. If you include Smart Phones usage for email as cloud use then yes, but mainstream SMB's in my experience do not use cloud based services due to security concerns and concerns especially around having their data stored with another firm.

How about we do some real research on exactly what SMB's are using. I think the whole Cloud phenomena is over hyped, there are a lot of large firms really pushing to get into this space and are spending a lot of money on advertising, bit like global warming!

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Cloud works :)

ericjones.cc Updated - 30th Mar 2012

Such a nice way to describe things with this infographics. Yes, it is true that Cloud Computing has made life easy to business individuals and entities by giving around 100% uptime and wide range of possibility to explore the web with cloud servers. Just came across with a lucrative article on Small Businesses Benefits from Cloud! http://www.cloudreviews.com/blog/small-businesses-cloud

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Regulus 20th Dec 2011

I've really got to thank you for the formatting of this info-graphic. For me, I need to drop these into a Word Doc. I use maximum sizes of 7.5" w or 10" l. This one fit right in at 7.49"w. Too often I have to squeeze these down to where they are no longer legible and, are, therefore unusable. Keep up the good work, thanks & Seasons Greetings!

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