Cloud Computing
The era of the desktop PC is over.
Keeping all this software and equipment working properly is an expensive headache. Losing your data to viruses and hardware failures is a nightmare. Cloud Computing solves all that while saving you big money and making your digital infrastructure available everyplace you go.
Although it sounds complicated, Cloud Computing is actually a very simple concept based on three basic truths.
1. The Internet is everywhereIf you use the Internet, then you already know this. At home, at the office, in the airport, on your phone - wherever you are, you can get access. And wherever you are, that's where you need your applications and data that run your business. Having all that stuck on one PC in the office is kind of like leaving your car in the garage. |
2. Software is cheapWell, actually, it's even free a lot of the time. What's expensive is maintaining it and keeping it working together with your hardware and all the other software you use - not to mention being wiped out by the latest super virus dreamed up by some teenage hacker. |
3. Hardware is vulnerableHaving your data sitting on one piece of hardware in one location - whether that is your office, home or some 'secure facility' - is what is called a single point of failure. If your hard drive fries, your office floods, your house gets robbed - whatever - there goes not just your applications but also all your data. There goes your business. |
For all of these reasons, more and more companies - and even more individuals - have come to realize that Cloud Computing is safer, easier and far less expensive than the old desktop PC model of computing.
Most of you are already using Cloud Computing and may not even realize it. Applications that are used by hundreds of millions of people such as Quicken Online, Gmail, Flickr and thousands more are all examples of Cloud Computing.
So, get your business unchained from the cost, complexity and vulnerability of the desktop and get on the cloud!