Wednesday, January 6, 2010

UK SMEs Head Towards the Cloud in 2010



CBR's Steve Evans cites new research showing Small, Medium Businesses in the UK have their heads in the clouds...



UK SMEs head to the cloud in 2010




But security and reliability still an issue



New research has revealed that just over half of UK SMEs expect to be using cloud computing by the end of the year.



The study, conducted by business ISP Easynet Connect, found that just over 50% of the respondents said that they planned to embrace cloud computing this year, up from 22% who responded in the same way when asked in October 2008. Long term on-demand computing is also set to increase, with 73% claiming they will adopt cloud computing within five years, up from 47% at the end of 2008.



The number of SMEs that have ruled out cloud computing has dropped from 53% in 2008 to 27% in 2009.



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