Cloud Services in Small Businesses

CLOUD SERVICES IN SMALL BUSINESSES CHANGING THE WAY WE CONDUCT BUSINESS WHAT IS THE CLOUD? TOP REASONS "The Cloud" refers to distributed computing overa nelwork, where a program or application may run on many connected computers at the same time. It specifically refers to a computing hardware machine or group of computing hardware machines commonly referred as a server connected through a communication network like the Internet. for businesses to adopt the cloud: 17% 33% Cost Mobility ALMOST ALL BUSINESSES report major improvements in IT performance after cloud adoption 82% 93% 52% 82% of companies save money after adopting the cloud 93% of companies report an improved IT department of companies report increased efficiency EMPLOYEE CONCERNS DATA SECURITY CONCERNS 74% of businesses saw little to no resistance from employees regarding cloud adoption Only 25% of companies considering cloud adoption expressed concern about data security with the cloud 48% of United States government IT employees say that they have adopted the cloud All U.S. government agents have a, "Cloud First" policy