The smartest technology is in the cloud

Maturity, slow Internet speeds and inertia. These are the three reasons posited by author Steven Cohen in his article on startup website Ventureburn about the hesitancy of some small to medium-sized enterprises to adopt cloud-based technology even when such services are already so widely prevalent in our lives. As he mentions:

The sad thing is that when something comes along that offers true transformation for the industry, many end-users are cynical. The cloud presents such a change, and it has already revolutionised our private lives, through the Apple iCloud, web-based email, Dropbox, and so many other online services we use every day.

For many people, the lack of maturity of cloud-based services – who clearly don’t have the longer track record that desktop apps have – and intertia – fighting daily fires that prevents us from tackling larger and more pressing problems – are probably the two reasons that are most relevant. The third reason – Internet speed – is most likely less of a concern as it is generally getting faster everywhere with mobility becoming more widespread on top of that.

As Cohen closes with, “today’s smartest technology is in the cloud.”