I’m a news junky. And as a news junky I am, of course, following the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests. OWS is a movement unlike any I’ve ever seen with its plurality of messages and demands. But one message is clear: there are inequities in our business landscape, both real and perceived. Most business inequities occur naturally in our economy as some businesses have grown and become titans, while others have not. This, after all, is how a free market economy is meant to work. However, it got me to thinking about the old aphorism, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” In these trying economic times we find that the tide is, in fact, not raising all boats. This is especially true for smaller, mid-sized enterprises.
Ok, you ask, so what? Well, here is the so what: the continued growth and well-being of small and medium sized businesses just may be the determining factor in healing the world’s current economic crisis. These enterprises represent true global “job creators.” But this market needs a little help, as the economic downturn has, in many cases, had a more severe effect on them than on their larger competitors. These businesses need an equalizer. But what can serve as an “equalizer” for this market to help them compete with the business giants of the world? Technology. More to the point, Information Technology (IT).
That’s where cloud computing and other “utility” service offerings like the ones from HP come into play. Because of efficiency of design, economies of scale, and leveragability of resources, managed cloud computing services, and other utility-based IT services represent one area the small and mid-sized market can utilize to help “level the playing field.” It could do for smaller business, and the IT services industry, what the advent of the assembly line did for manufacturing. Cloud computing and utility computing, both private and public, can help “lift all boats,”
To learn more about how HP is helping smaller, mid-sized clients find a competitive “equalizer”, check out this Cloud Computing information:
