Seeking Small Business Start-up Success? The Cloud Can Get You There

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Tom McShane.

We’ve all heard the benefits the cloud can bring to businesses and computing in general – it’s almost something of a broken record. But the thing about this frequently repeated statement is that it’s a one-size-fits-all phrase that doesn?t really get into the nitty gritty.  Sure, cloud computing can help big businesses and small businesses, as well as various types of consumers and professionals, but it doesn’t serve them all in the same way – the benefits differ, as do the end results of cloud adoption. In this guest post, courtesy of cloud and hosted exchange providers Giacom, we look at how it’s specifically relevant to those start-up SMBs.

Scalable Organisation & IT Setup

Imagine a central on-site server for your company – whether you?ve got 50 employees or 200, it’s an expensive setup to have. In addition to the costs of the hardware you have the complexity of updating an infrastructure as a company grows, as well as the large cost of a dedicated team of IT technicians to deal with the upkeep of your data centre…

While this is perhaps less troublesome for much larger companies, SMBs and smaller start-up firms (with, say, less than 300 employees) may find this expensive – IT professionals who are good at their job and are well qualified will be, or will at least expect to be, paid accordingly. With a small operation of less than 100 staff, a small IT team of three or four dedicated on maintaining a local data server will place a completely disproportionate cost on the company…

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