The latest and greatest technologies always get the attention and accolades, but it's the unsung and unheralded technologies that often are the workhorses that keep your business running -- functional trumps flash and fancy every time. Here, bMighty reviews nine technologies that have been overlooked, underhyped, or taken for granted.
Any questions? It's not quite that simple, of course, particularly if you have a significant investment in on-premises software already or you're running custom applications that are the foundation of your competitive advantage -- like most things worth considering, cloud computing isn't the solution for every business and every situation. Yet it does offer scalability and reliability in an operational (rather than capital) cost structure.
And of particular interest to business owners, it's light on the staffing demands. Don't have an IT staff? You probably don't need one to run your apps or infrastructure in the cloud. Already have an IT staff? You certainly don't need to expand it and maybe you can even reduce it by moving to the cloud. That translates to significant cost savings or cost aversion.
Moving to the cloud isn't a pure cost play, however. There's also an expertise factor. Many growing companies don't have any IT staff and if they do, they tend to be generalists rather than specialists. There's nothing wrong with that, but who do you think has more experience running a data center, you or Werner Vogels?
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