Going Global With The Cloud: Anywhere, Anytime Access – Infographic
October 1, 2014
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jon Roskill.
Let’s cut right to the chase… Lots of companies have offered 24/7 availability of systems and data to their customers and employees for years. What else is new? What’s new is that a cloud computing environment can make 24/7 availability possible for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). (Infographic Source:Towergate)
Previously, only organizations with robust IT infrastructure (in terms of servers, communications networks, and the staff to maintain them) could offer global access to internally hosted software applications and databases. Now SMEs can offer customer ordering and account self-service applications hosted in a public cloud. The same public cloud can provide 24/7 availability of applications and data to employees, thereby improving productivity or supporting more flexible working arrangements…
Additionally, a public cloud computing environment can be accessed from virtually anywhere, further expanding worker productivity and flexibility. Perhaps most importantly, the 24/7 global availability of a public cloud computing environment can open new markets by reaching new customers or creating new distribution relationships…
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