Cloud Adoption Picks Up SMB Momentum

While usage of cloud applications among small-to-medium (SMB) organizations may not be as deep as current hype suggests, a new survey of 3,000 companies with between two to 250 employees conducted by Microsoft shows that a shift to cloud applications is well under way.

What’s not clear is how deep that shift will be, with most organizations preferring to rely on a handful of utility applications, such as email in the cloud.

That may change, however, as SMB organizations gain not only more confidence in the cloud, but also finally put to rest their security concerns.

Click through for results from a survey on SMB cloud adoption, conducted by Microsoft.

Only about a third have made the move to the cloud.

Caution still rules.

More optimistic companies view IT as a key enabler.

Resistance is falling.

A transformation begins.

Risk, security and cost top the list.

But attitudes towards cloud security are changing.

Number of applications being used is relatively limited.

As are the types of applications being used.

Inertia is a powerful thing.