Cloud Computing

How to Succeed in Business with Cloud Computing

What is Cloud Computing

In a competitive economic community, businesses are constantly searching for innovative ways to be successful.  Whereas success can be defined differently, in general, companies want to grow, increase profits, work effectively, and meet goals.  Within these efforts to improve, businesses are in search of technology to initiate such processes.  IT departments work fervently to stay [...]


Improving Sales with Cloud Computing

Improving Sales and Cloud Computing

Increasing sales, for many companies, equates success.  However, figuring out how to do that can often be challenging.  Some businesses are looking towards customer relationship management (CRM) systems to help facilitate more leads.  The goals of CRM systems are to manage and organize customer data in order to provide supportive customer service, and to find [...]


Looking Skyward: Cloud Computing and Business

Cloud Computing And Business

Have you ever found yourself staring into the sky looking for a solution for how you can improve your business? Would you be surprised to learn that the answer has been right in front (or rather, right above you) the whole time? That’s right, the solution you’ve been searching for has been around the whole [...]


Understanding Cloud Computing Applications

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Cloud computing, at its simplest, is a collection of computing software and services available from a decentralized network of servers.  The term “cloud” has long been used as a metaphor for the Internet, and there are many popular services and Web sites which you may already be enjoying, without being aware that they are cloud-based. [...]


Walking on Sunshine with Cloud Computing

Sunshine with Cloud Computing

There’s only one cloud in the sky on this sunny day, and it’s not bringing any bad weather along with it. It’s “the cloud,” a metaphor in the IT world for what we know as the Internet. The “cloud” refers to Web servers provided by a number of companies that virtually host services that may [...]


What You Need to Know About Cloud Computing Models

Cloud Computing Models

Cloud computing is becoming a popular topic among the business community. The “cloud” metaphor presents an image of services that are provided from data centers and pooled servers outside business walls. Cloud computing generally refers to internet-based uses of virtual technologies. Depending on the needs of a business, cloud computing is described using several different [...]


Why You Should Know About Cloud Computing

Understand Cloud Computing

When you first hear mention of cloud computing, a pastoral image of an expansive blue sky dotted with puffy clouds might come to mind. As you might have guessed, however, cloud computing has nothing to do with cirrus, stratus, or cumulonimbus clouds. Instead, it is all connected to computers and how software, servers, and storage [...]


Drawbacks to On-Premises Software

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When deciding which software services best fit your company’s needs, the two main choices seem to be cloud computing versus on-premise software.  Cloud computing offers subscription-based applications on shared datacenters over the Internet, with the vendor taking care of all of the hosting and maintenance details. While the pros and cons for each side are [...]


Cloud Computing: The Musical

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Overture As the orchestra plays, the curtain rises to reveal a typical office setting. The sky outside is dark and it looks like it is about to rain. The music ends and our cast comes on stage, frazzled and frantic – their computer systems are about to crash because of a bad software installation. Act [...]


Cloud Computing Infrastructure: An Oxymoron?

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When you think of infrastructure, you most likely think of the physical structures needed for an operation to  exist.  However, as far as cloud computing goes, it can mean something all together different.  Cloud computing delivers applications and services in an on-demand basis.  No purchasing of software, servers, data center space, and network equipment is [...]


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