Tuesday, December 20, 2011

We’re better together: how cloud, mobile and social are transforming the way we work

We're finally on the tablet bandwagon at On-Site Technical Solutions. (We started with the ASUS Transformer.) We're also convinced they're the future of computing. Pity the poor desktop and laptop... As we continue to make this transition, Google has some thoughts on how this is all coming together. 



This piece from the Official Google Enterprise Blog sums up the advances in cloud, mobile and social media for business as well as the impact of personal use of these tools on business. I would suggest their 10% figure for SMBs deploying cloud technologies is low - we count email in the cloud as cloud technology, which is usually the first tool a business moves to the cloud. 

I prefer Google+ to Facebook but recognize that Facebook owns that market. When Amit Singh, the author of the Google post, talks about "we," he's talking about Google. But this is bigger than Google and any technical vendors that want to stay in business are either in the cloud or moving their products to the cloud. That's where we'll find the future of technology. 

Expect the pace of cloud adoption to quicken, not get any slower! 

Cloud
The movement of computing to the web is inevitable and will only accelerate in 2012 as many large businesses join Fortune 500 companies like Guardian Life, MeadWestvaco, and Sanmina-SCI in the cloud. We also expect that 2012 will be a huge year in the cloud for small businesses, which represent 99.7 percent of all U.S. employers, yet only 10% of SMBs have deployed cloud technologies..
Mobile
Increasing numbers of employees are bringing personal devices to work, and there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all enterprise mobile plan. Forrester Research predicts that in 2012 more than 77% of organizations will support Android and iOS devices.* Looking at our own customers, more than 90% of Google Apps for Business users have deployed or are interested in using Android devices in their organization, and for good reason; Android version 4.0, called Ice Cream Sandwich, includes powerful enterprise features such as on-device encryption, VPN and Global Address List (GAL) support.
Social
We've made strong progress in bringing some of the best consumer technology to business in areas like email, documents, video and mobile devices. But there’s been a glaring exception: social. This despite the fact that businesses are inherently about people and relationships, and the web is ideally suited to groups collaborating together. 

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