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IT Requirements of SMBs
Is the SMB market ripe enough for IT Service Industry, especially in a recession environment? While large companies had a rough sledding through the recession, SMBs made a relatively good financial progress.
SMBs – Steering well in rough seas
Here’s an excerpt from the May 1st Edition of Wall Street Journal : “Like most companies, smaller firms used the global crisis to pare costs and trim inventories. They are running lean nowadays and have relatively strong balance sheets, with more cash and less debt as a percentage of market capitalization than do large companies, according to Standard & Poor’s data. … Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, hosted services, IT requirements of SMBs, Online Backup
Posted in Microsoft, Online Backup, SMB, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
SMB’s reaction to Cloud – a Pro/Con Analysis
Why many SMBs are reluctant to Cloud?
“Cloud Computing” – a buzz word that’s on the peak of Hype Cycle for quite some time now is still a ‘jargon’ to many SMBs and Mid Market Companies. It was interesting to see the results of the ‘cloud hosting awareness survey’ conducted by RackSpace that more than two thirds of the SMBs in US are not familiar with the term “Cloud Hosting” – Wow!
Now, two questions immediately arise in our mind. Is that the Small Businesses failed to grasp the cloud computing technology or the Cloud hosting providers done … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, cloud computing, data backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Small Business Cloud, SMBs reaction to cloud
Posted in Amazon Cloud, azure, General, Online Backup, Remote Backup | 5 Comments »
Google will abandon ‘pure SaaS’ and take the ‘software plus services’ route – courtesy Microsoft
So the inevitable is happening. At last, Google seems to be coming around to Microsoft’s software plus services strategy. The news that Google is opening up Google Apps for resellers is the first step in this direction. Pure SaaS sold directly to end customers would only go some distance. There are hundreds of thousands of SMBs out there who prefer to outsource their IT to a local IT Solution provider or a managed service provider (MSP). The only way to reach that segment of the SMB is through these IT solution providers. It was hence inevitable that Google ca… Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, Google Apps, Microsoft Live, Microsoft Online, SaaS, Software as a Service, Software Plus Services
Posted in Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Why we are impressed with EMC
I should say I am seriously impressed with EMC. I am talking about their announcement of a new subsidiary called Decho, which combines the two acquisitions they had made in the last one year: the online backup services startup, Mozy, and the Personal
Information Management startup, Pi Corp. When EMC acquired Mozy I had thought EMC would use Mozy’s technology to come up with some cloud storage initiative for the enterprise and the mid-market segment. I also felt that would take away Mozy’s focus on consumer and small and medium business segment. Of course, it was probably wishful thinking … Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, Decho, EMC, Mozy, Online Backup, Pi, Picorp, StoreGrid
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Trends, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
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