Cloud Computing: Improved economy means more enterprises taking advantage of cloud technology

Now that business is picking up and ICT budgets are being freed up, a significant proportion of SMEs are looking to work smarter and take advantage of the technologies on offer, said Datapac chief technical officer, David Kinsella.

David Kinsella, chief technical officer, Datapac
David Kinsella, chief technical officer, Datapac

“One major example is taking advantage of the cloud for backup and DR and moving away from tape. Back-up and DR as-a-Service are rapidly growing fields and in fact the difference in budgetary terms is fairly modest anyway. It’s more a question of moving on to a more effective modern solution.

“We have a lot of SME customers which are running Microsoft Small Business Server and mainly have a ...