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Unless you've been living in a supplies cupboard for the past year, you'll know that the buzzword de jour is cloud computing. It seems everywhere you look, somebody is promoting or trying to sell a cloud solution. Ball gazers at IDC estimate that by 2020, the cloud will generate a worldwide services and enablement market worth …

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  1. Mark 65

    Touting the SMB cloud

    Just curious, but what will SMBs do with this public cloud versus, say, using SaaS or are you lumping all such offerings together? For most SMBs I would have thought their main (non-desktop) concerns are:

    ERP

    Exchange type calendering and email systems

    storage and backups

    inter/intranet site

    google docs vs office (MS, Libre, Open etc) - bit of a desktop one but fits in with SaaS.

    I'm hoping to be enlightened as to their gain.

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