Words You Will Never Utter Again when you Move to the Cloud

“I’ll get back to you when I get to the office”

“I’ll have to check my calendar when I get to my computer”

“The files are on my desk”

“I can’t get you that information, our server is down again”

And the best one:

“How many days did our IT guy say it would take to fix……….? “

Painful statements. Instead of taking 2 aspirin, fix the problem. How?

Time is money and money, wisely spent, can maximize our time.

We are a mobile society. Just look around you when you go out to eat, sitting at an airport or on the road (not advisable). People are on their smartphones or tablets, connecting to friends, looking up information, and working. The concept that in today’s workplace a customer would wait for information is antiquated. Your customers, employees, and partners expect you to provide that sales, service or product information while on the phone. If your data is back at the office they won’t wait; they will find another vendor.

And if time is money, then every hour your team wastes on IT headaches increases your stretched overhead and takes them away from productive work. According to a recent Samsung study that examines how workers are actually using IT in the workplace, employees spend an average of 7 hours a week fixing IT headaches. Take that number, multiply it by your hourly cost per employee, then multiply that figure by the number of employees….and you have a staggering figure.

The Cloud ends this waste of time and resources. Cloud-based apps are maintained by the vendor; updates don’t come shipped in CDs, they are automatically performed while your team is asleep. Cloud-based apps don’t require downloads, won’t conflict with whatever operating system you and don’t require you to store and maintain servers: the Cloud provider handles it all for you.

The Cloud can’t solve all the frustrations that operating a business entails, but one of the benefits of Cloud computing is never having to say…

“What do you mean I lost all the information on my laptop?”

InfoStreet’s Small Business Blog’s mission is to make sense of the ‘Cloud’, to help small businesses realize the benefits from cloud computing and to provide small business owners with a full range of information and resources.

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