{"id":19758,"date":"2016-01-12T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3630957"},"modified":"2016-01-12T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:02:00","slug":"five-ways-that-cloud-is-good-for-growing-smbs-by-lisapopeinfor-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/five-ways-that-cloud-is-good-for-growing-smbs-by-lisapopeinfor-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways That Cloud Is Good for Growing SMBs By @LisaPopeInfor | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that all we hear about these days is the move to the cloud. Certainly, it\u2019s a top-trending technology topic for enterprise-sized organizations. But don\u2019t let the hype mislead you into believing cloud deployment is just for large businesses. Small- to medium-sized organizations can absolutely reap the benefits of cloud. In fact if you\u2019re an SMB, you have even more to gain from cloud deployment \u2013 and you run a real risk of missing out by not going to the cloud.<br \/>\nAccording to a September 2014 study by Deloitte, SMBs using an above-average number of cloud services grow 26 percent faster on average than those that don\u2019t use cloud tools, and are more profitable by 21 percent on average.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3630957\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that all we hear about these days is the move to the cloud. Certainly, it&rsquo;s a top-trending technology topic for enterprise-sized organizations. But don&rsquo;t let the hype mislead you into believing cloud deployment is just for large businesses. Small- to medium-sized organizations can absolutely reap the benefits of cloud. In fact if you&rsquo;re an SMB, you have even more to gain from cloud deployment &ndash; and you run a real risk of missing out by not going to the cloud.<br \/>\nAccording to a September 2014 study by Deloitte, SMBs using an above-average number of cloud services grow 26 percent faster on average than those that don&rsquo;t use cloud tools, and are more profitable by 21 percent on average.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3630957\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20278,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758\/revisions\/20278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}