Working within the Clouds
Written By: Caitlyn Young
If you work for or own a small or medium sized business (10-150 people) your resources may be limited. This includes office space, time, and money. As your business grows, so may your number of employees, and with a limited amount of space, the new “trend” for many businesses is to have their employees work from home saving you space, time, and money. Many of you may have heard the term “Cloud” but are unsure what it is and how can it help your business.
Application Sharing, also known as the Cloud, now gives business owners and their employees the ability to share important documents using all different IT sources, from desktops to laptops, MAC, iPad, and now even on the go using your smart phone. It can be viewed as a “virtual” office and now companies can be more efficient and work on important tasks from anywhere that provides an internet connection.
Although many businesses may have several employees working from outside the office, it’s still important to allow all employees easy access to all their documents and saved files. Whether you use the Cloud for simple tasks like checking your emails or scheduling meetings, or if you need multiple people working on the same project at once.
It’s now easy for small businesses to use Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook or any other application such as SQL databases, accounting systems, etc. from any device (iPad, Android, Laptop, desktop, MAC, and others) from anywhere at any time, just plug in and go!
“Research and Markets analysts are expecting cloud computing to be a 160.2 billion dollar market by 2015.”
