3 Ways Cloud Computing is Changing IT for the Better

Grazed from Actco. Author: Brian McCafferty.

Cloud computing is making everything easier. Companies that operated IT infrastructures of their own before the cloud know firsthand how much easier it is thanks to the cloud. A brief comparison of doing business before and after the cloud will show just how much cloud computing is changing things.

Think about what it was like to set up a major business application like hosting corporate email just fifteen years ago. Setting up your company with an application like this would entail purchasing a dedicated server. You would then have to spend a significant amount of hours installing and deploying the new server and software. In addition to this, a server isn’t a piece of equipment that you can simply set up and walk away from, never to touch again. Owning a server requires maintenance, which means having an in-house technician at best, or having regular visits from a break-fix computer repair company at the least…

Easy to Deploy

Fast forward to today and a business wanting the same enterprise-level solution can simply call up a cloud computing provider and within fifteen minutes the solution is deployed and can be accessed on every company device. There is no need to spend a half day or even half a week installing a new server and setting up the software on each workstation. From an end-user standpoint, using a hosted business app over the cloud functions just as good as if the business owner had sprung for a new server unit and hosted the app internally…

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