Cloud Computing: what to look for and what to look out for.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at a recent conference:
“Twenty years ago when you were setting up a small business, you had to go and buy a personal computer or a small server … and you had to have an IT professional and you had to run it in-house.
The right thing for a small business to do now is to not have any computers except the things, which are on people’s desktops and on their smartphones … and do everything in the cloud. … The components would be an email system, a calendar system, a sales force automation system, and then the stuff that’s vertical for whatever their business is.”
So if you are considering cloud based solutions, what are the questions your company should ask before moving to the cloud?
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Last evening I was having dinner with friends and the table got very quiet when one man asked me ‘What’s the cloud and why do I need it?” ( I being the resident geek). Now this gentlemen is a professional engineer operating a company of over 50 employees. The people at dinner are professionals, business owners, educators and a head of a not-for-profit organization and yet they all turned, waiting for a response.
Odd question, since every one of them are using some form of cloud based services in their personal and business lives. For whatever reason, they just hadn’t associated what they were actually using with the phrase ‘cloud computing’. And they still were questioning how the cloud would improve their business.
So what are 5 most compelling reasons to be considering using the Cloud for your Small and Medium Business (SMB)?
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