The Cloud and what it means for your enterprise

Cloud services are more than just hosts for apps. They're resources that you can provision for your changing needs, and which you can scale up or down as necessary. In a very short time, suddenly true scalability for every IT service appears to be within reach for organizations looking at Cloud services and applications. A market that was almost non-existent by the end of last year, has grown past what many analysts would consider the point of adolescence, with the shakeout subsiding and brand dropouts declining. Someone should remind these cloud service folks there's a recession going on.

Cloud applications and the use of the Cloud in enterprises has increased so much many are forecasting the Cloud will disappear, not in the sense that it will be gone (far from it) but rather in that that it will become all-encompassing within a business. Companies will no longer see The Cloud as a trend or even an alternate model for using compute resources - it will become transparent as it will be the de factodefault means of choice for nearly all IT-backed projects across industry sectors.

Large tech companies such as Google are heavily focused on Cloud, Mobile and Social technologies and how the enterprises can leverage them to boost business and productivity. Its obvious the mobile workforce and growth of BYOD ( BRING YOUR OWN DEVICES) within the enterprise you will continue to see the integration of all three of these technologies. 

Integrated Unified communications helps achieve this goal by seamlessly integrating communications across Cloud based and mobile based business applications allowing users to access key business processes securely from any device and deliver real-time communication and collaboration across an enterprise workforce.

The enterprise cloud is in our blood now, too. And at this rate, it will probably be in our bones and muscles before the end of 2012.