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There’s no doubt that ‘The Cloud’ is an efficient tool that can help businesses and governments save money.  But is that it? Is the cloud only useful for obtaining business files remotely and increasing employee collaboration? No, the cloud is a mysterious new technology that continues to morph its way into new industries and promote its core values: costs saving and efficiencies. Where has the cloud found its way to now? Well, this time ‘the cloud’ has made its way to the silver screen and put movies online. Movies are the ultimate entertainment, they allow us to escape from this crazy world for a couple hours to laugh and cry. Now it seems that studios produce movies quicker and more efficiently with the help of the cloud.

Let’s take a look at the Oscar-winning Tony Clark. Clark founded the company Rising Star Picture that had their hand in making The Great Gatsby, Wolverine, and Hunger Games. Clark is a strong proponent of ‘The Cloud’ and says that it has saved his 40 employee, $12-million-a-year company money. However, Clark has taken the integration of the cloud a step further.  In 2004, Clark received a grant of $500,00 dollars from the South Australian government to set up cine.net, which is a private network for Australian filmmakers that allow speeds up to 40 gigabits a second. This later gave birth to cineSync that, “allows directors and editors to work on a film by videoconference, sharing their ideas as images roll on their screens,” says The Sydney Morning Herald. Due to the mass use of cineSync in major productions, Clark and his team won the ‘SciTech Oscar’ in 2011.

CineSync isn’t the only cloud company out there creating cloud technology and winning awards in the film industry. Vision Cloud, a European Union startup that recently won the IBC2013 Special Award for their work with the cloud and media, is out there making waves. According to IBC’s CEO, Michael Crimp, "the landscape of our industry has been transformed, and continues to develop, from traditional broadcasting to content everywhere.” Soon, all movies will be edited, and possibly filmed, in the cloud with ability to stream them to your home instantly.

Small Business and The Cloud

In recent posts, there has been a lot of talk about large companies and governments adopting “the cloud.” It gives them remote access to their files and improved collaboration between employees. Both large companies and governments have seen significant value from the recent adoption and continue to see increased efficiency and cost savings. However, we do not hear much about the small business. Is the cloud useful for small businesses or just another headache?

First of all, we need to determine if the cloud technology is even growing? Is there an actual push to get the cloud incorporated into everyday business? The answer to those questions are yes. According to Gartner, “the public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5 percent in 2013 to total $131 billion worldwide, up from $111 billion in 2012.” Therefore, this growth has allowed for the large companies and governments to squeeze their efficiency belt a little tighter. For the small business, it has opened up technological opportunities that were previously not available or too costly for the small business.

Today, the savvy, quick reacting, small businesses are taking advantage of the cloud technology and putting it to use. Furthermore, there has been an overwhelming success of the small business cloud adoption that has gotten the attention of the cloud power houses. It seems that the big cloud companies are eager to get their hands on the small business in an effort to bring the innovative technology down to the small companies. According to Aaron Levie, Box’s CEO, “The cloud is driving the ability for small and medium businesses to finally have best-in-class technology to run their business off of.” Geared towards the small business, Box will offer a 'starter' plan for $5 a month per user for up to 10 users at 100GB's of storage.