Trend Number One:
Cloud computing is no longer The Next Big Thing, it is The Big Thing. Five years ago it was on its way. By 2008 it had walked in the door, made itself a sandwich, turned on the ball game, sat down on the couch and put its feet up on the coffee table. Cloud computing is here, and it's here to stay.

Thousands of small to midsize companies have IT assets hosted remotely, and the largest global companies are using the cloud as a matter of course.

The only reason we still identify cloud computing as a trend is because of how rapidly it's growing.

Trend Number Two:
As fast as the demand is going up, the amount of computing cloud-based resources is rising even faster. An industry that once commanded healthy profits is turning into a commodity business.

At the rate things are going it won't be long before there's a hosting company opposite every Starbucks. That's very nice news for companies that need a lot of computing power but unfortunate for those of you who provide it.

Trend Number Three:
There's a dramatic shift in what companies now want to get out of cloud computing, and we're talking about companies of all sizes. Even thousands of smaller companies are becoming well aware that scattered cloud-based assets have somewhat limited benefits.

The cloud is not a major competitive plus unless everything is centralized and organized through a simple-to-use, simple-to-share, simple-to-collaborate, simple to manage interface.

This is where the real cost savings and performance gains come from, and they know it. Merely promising to help control monthly IT costs is a yawn. You may as well set up a stand on the corner and try to sell one gig hard drives.

It's What's Next
What companies are demanding is nothing less than over-the-horizon, enterprise level performance, on both the back and the front ends. In simplest terms, what the market wants is a management tool to harness the cloud resources and turn them into business-ready IT assets. An interface to empower the end users by providing them with unified access to all their IT assets on one screen, on any device, anywhere. That's what we call OS33.

If you've had a chance to spend just a few minutes browsing around our site, you already know what the OS33 Cloud Control Panel can do for an IT administrator. It's a cloud-based IT delivery system like nothing you've seen before.

You might also know that you can migrate all of your clients or end users in surprisingly short order, and train your end users in no more than an hour's time on the OS33 Webtop to work with all of their IT assets in ways they've only dreamed about. Everything is easy-to-access, easy-to-share, easy to use in collaboration.

What you might not know, however, is that as far back as 2000 we knew this day was coming. That's when OS33 first went into development. It's the farthest thing from a newly-created, rushed-out-the-door cloud computing startup.

Our product has been tested and proven by hundreds of companies and many thousands of users, and enhanced dramatically through dozens of releases over these many years. External IT, a comprehensive migration, support, and managed-hosting cloud computing company is just one such example. Clients in four countries have made OS33 the backbone of their business. Click here to learn more about how External IT takes advantage of our platform.

Congratulate Yourself
Few things in IT today are as exciting as OS33 and the realization of fully-functioning cloud computing. If you are a business outsourcing some of your IT assets already, or an MSP looking to catch the cloud computing wave, or perhaps a raw cloud resources provider who could use a partner like OS33, you may want to take this moment to give yourself a pat on the back. You've found something quite special here. OS33 is nothing less than the key that unlocks the promise of cloud computing.