Is It Time To Embrace The Cloud?

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Gillian Livingstone.

In today’s ERP world, one of the main choices when choosing a business system – is would you like this to be on the cloud or located on a server in your office? From speaking to a variety of different companies, it is clear many people are divided, mainly an age divide.
What becomes more apparent is the lack of understanding of the cloud.

The cloud is used in many different aspects of your everyday life. The first cloud experience I had was my Hotmail account (and I wasn’t even aware I was using the cloud when I created my account) accessing my emails from any device and any time. The next big realisation of the cloud is your iTunes account, streaming your music from all your different Apple accounts whether this was your Mac laptop, iPad or iPhone. Now we have the ability to pick up iMessages on your iPhone or iPad. All these features are down to the creation of the iCloud. Like me, I imagine most people in society would be lost without the ability to get my music at any time…

Another cloud feature is Dropbox, which allows you to store and share files online. In my university days documents would have had to be emailed, or if the file was too large it would be saved onto a USB, to share my files between different computers and people. This shows that cloud technology has changed the way we store our files in such a short period of time…

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