Getting Ahead in the Cloud

GETTING AHEAD IN THE CLOUD The rise of cloud computing has opened many doors for small businesses. They can securely share and store data and documents, access files while mobile, collaborate with colleagues across geographies, and cut operational costs. All of the clouds capabilities lead to business getting done faster, cheaper and more efficiently – from anywhere. Businesses using the cloud increase efficiencies 48% 49% 49% 52% reduce IT capital requirements reduce IT energy/ enable or improve anywhere access consolidate IT infrastructure power consumption SOURCE: CDW 2011 CLOUD COMPUTING TRACKING POLL And reduce costs Among current cloud users, 84% The biggest benefit of cloud computing said they cut application costs by moving to the cloud 24 SOURCE: AFFCOM 48.3% 47.7% On average, cloud users report 38.4% Lowered saving 21% annually Efficient cost of on those applications moved to the cloud collaboration Ability to respond quickly to business demands optimizing infrastructure SOURCE: AFFCOM across geographies 30-90% € $ The range of savings from having hosted vs. on-premise IT infrastructure SOURCE: CNET.COM SOURCE: MICROSOFT DISCRETE MANUFACTURING CLOUD COMPUTING SURVEY 2011 The IT innovation created by cloud computing could produce %24 Advantage: Cloud $1.1 trillion a year in new business revenues SOURCE: MICROSOFT GETTING AHEAD IN THE CLOUD The rise of cloud computing has opened many doors for small businesses. They can securely share and store data and documents, access files while mobile, collaborate with colleagues across geographies, and cut operational costs. All of the clouds capabilities lead to business getting done faster, cheaper and more efficiently – from anywhere. Businesses using the cloud increase efficiencies 48% 49% 49% 52% reduce IT capital requirements reduce IT energy/ enable or improve anywhere access consolidate IT infrastructure power consumption SOURCE: CDW 2011 CLOUD COMPUTING TRACKING POLL And reduce costs Among current cloud users, 84% The biggest benefit of cloud computing said they cut application costs by moving to the cloud 24 SOURCE: AFFCOM 48.3% 47.7% On average, cloud users report 38.4% Lowered saving 21% annually Efficient cost of on those applications moved to the cloud collaboration Ability to respond quickly to business demands optimizing infrastructure SOURCE: AFFCOM across geographies 30-90% € $ The range of savings from having hosted vs. on-premise IT infrastructure SOURCE: CNET.COM SOURCE: MICROSOFT DISCRETE MANUFACTURING CLOUD COMPUTING SURVEY 2011 The IT innovation created by cloud computing could produce %24 Advantage: Cloud $1.1 trillion a year in new business revenues SOURCE: MICROSOFT