Whether it's a web email service, or the apps on smartphones, tablets and wearable gadgets, the majority of us enjoy the benefits of personal internet applications delivered from the cloud.
It is difficult to read through a computer magazine or the technology section of a business magazine without the term “Cloud” popping up. It is fair to say that many SMB’s are still unsure about what the Cloud is, how it relates to their specific business and most importantly how it can benefit them. This post will tell you how.
The Cloud is just a metaphor for the Internet, thus cloud computing is simply computing over the Internet. It will enable you to store, run and access all your data without the need of a computer hard drive. Uses range from your Microsoft applications and data storage to your custom database and telephone systems, all accessible wherever you are. If you are using programs such as Gmail, Facebook or Dropbox, you are using the Cloud, even if you did not know it yet…
Unless they are a square peg in a round hole, which means they should get out of it and do something different, it’s a good bet IT managers have their career sights set on moving up in the world. For an IT professional this might ultimately mean the role of CIO (Chief Information Officer) or CTO (Chief Technology Officer).
Hosted desktop solutions offer excellent benefits for finance sector firms. Low maintenance, high reliability, and exceptional security are three key advantages.
Hosted desktop lets firms eliminate costly PCs or laptops and replace them with ‘thin clients’. Thin clients are stripped down versions of computers which enable network-based computing, where the processing is executed on cloud-based systems.
In any marketplace there are players of different sizes and capability. One of the traditional theories is that the larger the organisation, the greater the capability. However, this isn’t as true as it perhaps once was.