The Exceedingly Mobile Cloud – How To Weather This Disruptive Storm

Michael DeLapa	Kamal Shah

By Kamal Shah, CEO, Michael DeLapa, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, FotoNotes

This is a warning to IT departments everywhere: hold on tight. A disruptive storm is upon us. It’s going to shake, rattle, and roll your old legacy systems from dark and dingy office closets out into the bright, open sunshine. Data won’t be hidden, processes won’t be rigid, and IT costs won’t be fixed and rising. More importantly, customers, employees, and owners will all be happier – relieved of the burden of archaic internally managed hardware, software systems, and processes.

Consider the prevailing conditions:

• The Internet is everywhere, over Wi-Fi or cell. More than 94% of the U.S. and 72% of Europe now has broadband Internet coverage.
• Smart phones and tablets are exploding in numbers. Half of all adult Americans now own either a tablet computer or a smartphone.
• Global Internet usage will more than double by 2015, and most of these users will be mobile. The increased use of smart phones makes it easy for field workers to adopt the technology, since they are already using it in their personal lives.
• Cloud services, such as Amazon and others, are faster, cheaper, and safer than onsite storage and processing
• Software as a Service (SAAS) has become the de facto choice for virtually any organization in the past 10 years. Realizing the total cost of ownership, no one wants to buy servers and maintain software

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