Cloud Computing
What does Cloud Computing mean?
Cloud Computing is a service that enables convenient, fast, low cost, and on-demand access to computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage,applications, and services) that can be setup rapidly and scale as needed with minimal effort.
Why Should You Care?
“The cloud” is a friendly way of describing web-based services that are hosted outside of your organization. When you use cloud-based services, your IT infrastructure resides off-premises, and is maintained by a third party, instead of residing on a server at your business that you maintain. Many services you use every day are a part of the cloud— everything from websites, to web-based email to mobile banking and online photo storage. Because information is located online or “in the cloud,” you can access it virtually anywhere, from a PC, tablet or mobile phone.
Transitioning to the cloud offers numerous benefits, ranging from costs savings and increased productivity to disaster recovery.
7 Advantages of Cloud Computing
- 1) Reduce spending on technology infrastructure. No capital expense. Pay as you go on a monthly or yearly basis.
- 2) No servers needed, which means no hardware and software to purchase, install and maintain. Spending big money on infrastructure is over.
- 3) Worry free IT – Less support needed – no ongoing maintenance of systems. There is no hardware and software issues to worry about.
- 4) Backup is done in the cloud which offers built in business continuity and disaster recovery.
- 5) Improve Accessibility. Work anywhere – a workforce anywhere in the world can have access to information easily.
- 6) Easy to set up and use. Get started in minutes and setup new users in seconds. Less personnel training is needed.
- 7) Scale up or down as needed and with ease. Pay for what you need and grow quickly without worrying about servers and licenses.
