What’s The Buzz About “Cloud Computing”

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Lou D’Adamo.

Can using the Cloud really save you money? According to the Huffington Post, Parallels, a software company that enables companies like GoDaddy and Sprint to offer cloud services to small and medium businesses, reported that the cloud services industry grew to $45 billion worldwide last year. Helping to drive that were 6 million small and medium businesses purchasing their first cloud service last year alone. And, the report projects that the market is expected to grow annually at a rate of 28 percent through 2015 to be a $95 billion industry.

A Cloud storage application that you might consider is Google Drive. Google Drive gives you the ability to securely save your important documents to the cloud. This means that your document isn’t physically stored on any one device, but rather, it’s stored on a secure internet server and is accessible from any Internet or data-enabled device…

In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear. With a powerful search feature, Google Drive helps you get to your files faster. Search for content by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Google Drive can even recognize objects in your images and text in scanned documents…

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