Giving Small Business a Competitive Advantage with the Cloud

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Posted by Jon Smith+ on 3-Oct-2012 in Cloud computing, cloud computing, Cloud security, columns, data storage, featured post, hris modules, Iaas, outsourcing, PaaS, SaaS, The HRIS World, The HRIS World Research Network, various, vendor | 0 comments

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Jon Smith is a regular contributor to The HRIS World.

Anyone involved with technology and business is hearing about the cloud — what many do not know is how the cloud is giving small businesses a competitive advantage.

As technology changes, which it so rapidly does, it is important that small businesses keep up-to-date with the latest trends opening up opportunities to innovate, diversify, gain, and keep a competitive advantage.

Cloud computing is one of these trends it is extremely cost-effective for small businesses, reducing IT costs and increasing efficiency in the process.

Cloud services are extremely secure and provide small businesses with flexibility, allowing users to access and update records wherever they are in the world.

It implies that the digital infrastructure of a small business can be housed externally and can provide a versatile alternative to keeping servers on site.

Servers can be very costly to maintain, in the case of failure replacing a server is extremely costly not only for the hardware but also in time.

Server failure can prevent a business from operating on a day to day basis this is especially important to online organisations.

Jon Smith

Jon is an EMEA e-Marketing Specialist for Insight UK (the provider of smartCLOUD), a Global provider of information technology (IT) hardware, software. and service solutions for the business and public sector organizations.

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