Tuesday 14 August 2012

Small businesses - Main Target for Cloud Computing

Small Businesses - Cloud saves a lot of Money.

The Cloud Computing paradigm has been here for a while and the main users have been the medium - sized businesses. Most of the small scale businesses are deploying both hardware and software in the Cloud. Leading vendors are SalesForce, Google, Rackspace, DropBox and many others.

Major benefits from Cloud - for Small Businesses - 

  • Cloud-based file-sharing
  • Email with dedicated domain.
  • Productivity applications Like word-processors, spreadsheet applications, calender, video conferencing, chat and work collaboration.
  • e-Marketing
A survey was conducted by IT social network Spiceworks on behalf of cloud solutions vendor EMC.
The main remark of the survey has been -

Majority of the small scale businesses are using cloud-based file sharing services, such as Dropbox, Box, and others, are easy to use and employee-friendly. However, IT departments remain concerned about the security, compliance and reliability challenges these services can present.

Keep Clouding. 

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