Thinking of SmallMedium Sized Businesses (SMBs) about Cloud Computing
                     Thinking of Small/Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) 
about Cloud Computing
David Barton
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Though many cloud computing service providers are trying to attract the small 
and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to adopt cloud, the number of SMBs who 
are using cloud is not high. This might be either because of security concerns or 
unaware of this latest technology. The three main situations because of which 
small businesses not opting for cloud computing are
1. SMBs unclear about cloud computing
According “pcmag” website, the business survey held in 2013 reported that 46 
percent of small companies know what is “cloud” while 27 percent of them are 
totally unaware of cloud. Of the small businesses who know cloud, 42 percent of 
them are not using the cloud computing for their business operations.
It is a different story that many small businesses are knowingly or unknowingly 
using the cloud services. For example, some email services, tool like Microsoft 
Office suit, storage services like Dropbox are all cloud services which many 
small businesses utilize.
2. Security concerns are making small businesses hesitant to move to cloud 
computing
Small businesses are worried about the security of their confidential information. 
For some small businesses, data is very important and crucial for the business. 
Adopting cloud computing might need to share the data with the cloud. Cloud 
can be accessed by any user. This is making small businesses hesitant to move to 
cloud computing.
Data are more safe when the business hires a private cloud and adopt hybrid 
services. But, this could be expensive for small businesses.
3. Bandwidth issues to small businesses
Bandwidth is an issue in some geographic locations especially in rural areas. 
Hence there will be trouble in accessing the services and retrieving the data 
stored on cloud if the bandwidth capacity is not good. Hence small businesses are 
not opting for the cloud computing.
46 percent of small and medium businesses are getting limited bandwidth 
because of which they cannot find the storage space on the public cloud.
However may be the thinking of the small businesses may be regarding the cloud 
computing, the cloud computing providers are coming up with the more creative 
and innovative services which are easily available and accessible for the small 
companies. There are almost all the services on the cloud which are useful for the 
small and medium size businesses.
Though the confidentiality of the data is a major issue and can be rectified by 
which, small businesses could get many helpful services, a big majority of small 
and medium businesses are not showing interest in adopting clod computing.
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