Cloud computing is the delivery of infrastructure - including but not limited to servers, platforms and software - via the internet on demand.

This means that businesses can change the focus of their spending, moving it away from IT infrastructure capital spending and the costs of maintaining that infrastructure on to operational issues.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) particularly stand to benefit from a move to the cloud: there’s no need to spend a lot of money buying on-premises IT infrastructure, and cloud services can be scaled according to need.

In this report we analyse how small and large companies in the UK and US, across multiple sectors, are dealing with cloud computing. Specifically, we report on:

- Are there differences in adoption trends?

- What are the reported benefits (if any) and how are these benefits achieved?

- What sized businesses are seeing the greatest benefits from cloud computing?