{"id":7348,"date":"2013-05-09T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2652558"},"modified":"2013-05-09T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:33:00","slug":"cloud-expo-new-york-the-who-what-and-how-of-selling-cloud-to-smbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-expo-new-york-the-who-what-and-how-of-selling-cloud-to-smbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Expo New York: The Who, What and How of Selling Cloud to SMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources \u2013 previously only available to enterprises \u2013 in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey\u2019s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs comprising 65% of public cloud spending in 2015. But selling cloud to SMBs raises the questions of who, what and how.<br \/>\nIn her session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Manjula Talreja, VP of Cisco\u2019s Global Cloud Business Development Team, will discuss the importance of knowing who SMBs are through market segmentation; understanding what cloud services they will consume; and understanding how best to sell to SMBs and from which channels. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2652558\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources \u2013 previously only available to enterprises \u2013 in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey\u2019s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs compri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}