Comments
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Cloud Expo on Google News

SYS-CON.TV
Cloud Expo & Virtualization 2009 East
PLATINUM SPONSORS:
IBM
Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
IBM
Smarter Insights: How the CIO Becomes a Hero Again
Microsoft
Windows Azure
GOLD SPONSORS:
Appsense
Why VDI?
CA
Maximizing the Business Value of Virtualization in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Environments
ExactTarget
Messaging in the Cloud - Email, SMS and Voice
Freedom OSS
Stairway to the Cloud
Sun
Sun's Incubation Platform: Helping Startups Serve the Enterprise
POWER PANELS:
Cloud Computing & Enterprise IT: Cost & Operational Benefits
How and Why is a Flexible IT Infrastructure the Key To the Future?
Click For 2008 West
Event Webcasts
Survey Reveals a Segment of American Businesses Enjoying Optimism & Planning for Growth
Receiving Emotional Support While Weathering a Crisis May be the Difference Between Success & Failure

DENVER, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- This has been a rough quarter for businesses: the Dow Jones and Nasdaq are roller-coasters, employment levels are fragile, banks like Lehman Brothers collapse, gas prices are uncertain, and an unusually polarizing election has business owners wondering what will happen to their taxes and trying to strategize for a very uncertain future.

Both McCain and Obama claim they will help small businesses, and congressional candidates promise the same. The Federal Reserve will continue to tweak interest rates to try to keep inflation at bay and the Stock Market functioning. But will any of the promises and talk actually make a difference to the small to mid-size businesses on Main Street?

Members of The Alternative Board(R) (TAB) -- an organization that provides small to medium-size companies with peer advisory boards and business advice, have overwhelmingly stated that it is the emotional support they receive from fellow business leaders that gets them through when times are tough.

According to a recent survey conducted by TAB to gauge the mood of small to mid-size business owners, 83 percent report receiving emotional support from their peers in addition to business support in the past six months, which may have something to do with the fact that more than 67 percent expect their businesses to grow, and the average TAB member has seen their business grow by more than 40 percent since joining the organization.

"Independent businesses are only as strong as the people within the company, so it should come as no surprise that businesses with organized access to emotional support networks are more inclined to flourish in a tough economy," said Jason Zickerman, president and COO of TAB. "Most business owners are almost entirely alone. That reality combined with economic crisis typically leads to either inaction due to fear, or hasty, faulty strategies to be embraced in a rush to do ... something. This is the very basis for why businesses involved in peer advisory networks enjoy prosperity that others believe to be an impossibility in market conditions such as these."

About The Alternative Board(R)

The Alternative Board(R) is an international provider of peer advisory and coaching solutions to leaders of privately held businesses. Over 300 TAB Boards are operating each month across the United States, Canada and South America. Headquartered in Denver, TAB was founded by Allen Fishman, author of 7 Secrets of Great Entrepreneurial Masters and 9 Elements of Family Business Success in 1990. For more information about the survey or about The Alternative Board(R), visit http://www.TheAlternativeBoard.com, or contact the local TAB-Certified Facilitator in your area.


     Contact:  Wendy Manning
               Volume Public Relations
               720-529-4850
               wendy@volumepr.com

SOURCE The Alternative Board

About PR Newswire
Copyright © 2007 PR Newswire. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PRNewswire content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of PRNewswire. PRNewswire shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.

Latest Cloud Developer Stories
Can you bring services from the cloud to your customers faster and have them adopt it with ease of use or bring the power of bundled services to the fingertips of your clients without creating new rigid ‘apps stove pipes'? Do you want to prevent your business running away to publ...
OCZ Technology Group, a provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, on Tuesday announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCI Express (PCIe) flash storage solution, designed to accelerate cloud computing applications and reduce operating expe...
Many organizations have embraced, or are considering, the benefits of cloud computing – speed, flexibility, increased expertise, shared workload, reduced costs, etc. The benefits are many – but so are the risks. What are the threats to cloud security? Which parties assume respons...
In August 2011, SHI Enterprise Solutions (ESS) division launched the SHI Cloud, offering reliable and cost-effective industrial-grade cloud computing platforms. That same division achieved an 82 percent increase in revenue over 2010.
SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced the immediate worldwide availability of SoftLayer Object Storage, a redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service that allows users to easily store, search and retrieve data across the Internet, with optional CDN connectivity, or ...
Subscribe to the World's Most Powerful Newsletters
Subscribe to Our Rss Feeds & Get Your SYS-CON News Live!
Click to Add our RSS Feeds to the Service of Your Choice:
Google Reader or Homepage Add to My Yahoo! Subscribe with Bloglines Subscribe in NewsGator Online
myFeedster Add to My AOL Subscribe in Rojo Add 'Hugg' to Newsburst from CNET News.com Kinja Digest View Additional SYS-CON Feeds
Publish Your Article! Please send it to editorial(at)sys-con.com!

Advertise on this site! Contact advertising(at)sys-con.com! 201 802-3021

SYS-CON Featured Whitepapers
ADS BY GOOGLE

Breaking Cloud Computing News
A new collaboration between a telecommunications infrastructure firm and a data center services prov...