5 WAYS TO USE CLOUD SERVICES IN YOUR BUSINESS

Cloud computing is a huge business development, particularly for businesses with multiple offices or remote employees who aren’t linked by a single physical network. Choosing the right cloud applications and using them to their full potential can help your business stay organized, reduce costs and grow.

Below are 5 excellent reasons for using Cloud in your business.

Data backup and security

If you are merely keeping files on your own computer, then you should consider storing them in the cloud too. Your data is protected from theft, calamities and even just a simple mistake of mistakenly pressing a wrong button and deleting important files. Your data is offered a different level of security. The cloud can offer levels of data protection far beyond simple nightly backups, such as continuous data protection, generators to handle power outages, and high-end servers that can keep running even one component fails.

Mobile Working

One of the great benefits of technology is the ability for small business owners to create fully functional mobile offices. The Cloud fits in perfectly with this because it allows you to access and sync your data from wherever you are, essentially allowing you to take your office with you on the road.

File sharing

Storing data on the cloud also allows your people located miles apart to access the files – minus the cutting and pasting, attachments and faxes. Cloud providers can add servers or services quickly and easily, and make them available not only to your internal corporate users but to external contractors, partners and customers as well. That means you can achieve degrees of flexibility that would be difficult or impossible internally, allowing you to respond more quickly to your customers’ needs or changes in your core business.

File Storage

Many small businesses are using images, audio and video to enhance their marketing activities. These files often take up a significant part of your hard drive space, which can be costly. The Cloud allows you to shift the storage of large files off of your local system, saving local storage for the files you need to access every day.

Make IT someone else’s problem

There’s no more technology for you to worry about. When you rent a car, the maintenance, repairs and breakdown assistance are all taken care of by the rental company. You rightly expect to be able to jump in and drive off, safe in the knowledge that your car will work. The same is true of cloud services: when you sign up, you get to use the software without worrying about installing it, maintaining it, downloading updates or keeping it secure. You also won’t need a server or any of the other additional IT investment that larger suites of software used to require. All that is handled, maintained and updated by your service provider.