Comments for Foreshore Blog http://blog.foreshore.net Comment, news and opinion from Foreshore Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Comment on A great day out… by Bob Lawrence http://blog.foreshore.net/a-great-day-out/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Bob Lawrence Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:53:03 +0000 http://blog.foreshore.net/?p=153#comment-100 Glad to see you've got the running bug too. Well done, thats great stats and good luck with the winter training. Glad to see you’ve got the running bug too. Well done, thats great stats and good luck with the winter training.

]]> Comment on Are small businesses giving public cloud the cold shoulder? by Matt Chatterley http://blog.foreshore.net/are-small-businesses-giving-public-cloud-the-cold-shoulder/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Matt Chatterley Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:35:33 +0000 http://foreshore.lamp-1.webreality.co.uk/?p=11#comment-3 To some extent it's probably true to say that small businesses outside IT fields are far more wary of "the cloud" as a whole and "cloud based applications" - for what they probably cite as business continuity reasons. If they phrase it that way or not - those are normally the back-of-mind thoughts. Disaster recovery is an interesting subject to broach with SMEs - any question along the lines of "What would the impact of X be on your ability to continue trading?" can meet a variety of answers, some of which are not ideal. Concerns over privacy, data security (in light of the public "failings" we are fed by the media, from large corporations) and continuity are bound to be strong factors contributing to this wariness. Does this mean that we won't see cloud adoption among SMEs? No, of course not - it's a market driven culture change which will take time to fully demonstrate it's potential. And I couldn't agree more about how providers will differentiate themselves from the competition and carve out success in the cloud. To some extent it’s probably true to say that small businesses outside IT fields are far more wary of “the cloud” as a whole and “cloud based applications” – for what they probably cite as business continuity reasons.

If they phrase it that way or not – those are normally the back-of-mind thoughts. Disaster recovery is an interesting subject to broach with SMEs – any question along the lines of “What would the impact of X be on your ability to continue trading?” can meet a variety of answers, some of which are not ideal.

Concerns over privacy, data security (in light of the public “failings” we are fed by the media, from large corporations) and continuity are bound to be strong factors contributing to this wariness.

Does this mean that we won’t see cloud adoption among SMEs? No, of course not – it’s a market driven culture change which will take time to fully demonstrate it’s potential.

And I couldn’t agree more about how providers will differentiate themselves from the competition and carve out success in the cloud.

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