It’s a hot question these days: should I base my small business in the cloud? We are, of course, referring to cloud computing. If you can get your office set up in actual celestial clouds, then you’re already miles ahead of the rest of us.
Cloud computing is probably the best thing to have happened for small businesses in years. It can save an incredible amount of money. Sure, you may not be able to tinker everything to your exact specifications. But with cloud computing, you don’t need the physical infrastructure for servers and storage systems. And with cloud-based freeware, you don’t have to spend so much as licenses for boxed software. It can help you so much when you’re just started up.
There are a lot of understandable worries when it comes to cloud computing for your business. Security, stability, and data ownership issues often worry business owners. Cloud services may also go down, which will leave your business and your customers potentially unable to work or use your service. These problems are solely under the control of the company providing the cloud service, which brings some risk into the equation.
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