The Cloud Continues to Amaze Us

Have you thought about The Cloud recently? We're not referring to the puffy bits of condensed moisture that float above us, but rather to the interconnected web of data, applications, services and other components, both public and private, that we now know as The Cloud. DynaSis thought about The Cloud quite a lot earlier this year, when we launched our cloud-based storage and sharing solution  DynaSis BLUE.

BLUE is incredibly flexible and secure, with granular management that gives companies real control over their content and how people access it. As a result, we hope you'll check it out, if you haven't already. But, BLUE isn't what continues to amaze us, as proud of it as we might be. No, that honor would go to The Cloud, itself.

We can across some statistics on cloud adoption and growth recently, and they blew us away like a leaf in a strong wind. Here are a few tidbits that might make you feel the same way.

• Research firm Gartner predicts that the bulk of IT spending by 2016 will be for cloud computing platforms and applications.
• The worldwide economic impact of cloud technology could be as much as $6.2 trillion, annually, by 2025, per McKinsey & Company's report, Disruptive Technologies, Advances that Will Transform Life, Business and the Global Economy.
• IDC expects public IT cloud services to grow by 23.5% annually (compound growth rate) between now and 2017. That's between four-six times as fast as that of on-premise IT.
•  According to KPMG's recent study of cloud adoption, Global Cloud Survey, the Implementation Challenge, 70% of companies say cloud computing is delivering operating efficiencies and cost savings, today.
• Boston Consulting Group says that adoption of SaaS (software as a service) is increasing at three times the rate of traditional, on-premise software. (With SaaS, companies and individuals contract to access and use software over an Internet connection rather than purchasing and installing it.)

So, have you poked your head into The Cloud yet? If not, the sooner you begin leveraging the productivity and operational benefits of cloud computing, the more money you can save. Adopting cloud computing will also help your company level its "playing field" in relation to larger competitors.

DynaSis can show you how to adopt the cloud securely and efficiently, without even giving up your in-house hardware, if you prefer. (Our approach to this hybrid solution is called Ascend.) You can start slowly, with cloud-based Microsoft Exchange or basic file storage and sharing for collaboration and remote working through DynaSis BLUE.

If you'd like to learn more, we have a great white paper on cloud computing you can peruse. The Cloud is waiting... what are you waiting for?