Posted on December 30th, 2011 by by admin

Small Business IT Support- Brief Cloud Computing Introduction

Small Business IT Support- Brief Cloud Computing Introduction
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Cloud computing introduction and small business It support into a small business organization can have a big impact in terms of cost savings and efficiency. That's because it can eliminate the need to purchase software licenses for each employee computer. Instead of installing a suite of software for each computer, you only have to load one application.

Employees then log into a web-based service which hosts all the programs needed for them to do their jobs. Remote servers owned by another company can run everything from e-mail to word processing and complex data analysis programs. This is the concept of cloud computing that is revolutionizing the computer industry. It represents a significant workload shift from local computers to the network of computers that make up the cloud, thus hardware and software demands on the user's side decrease significantly.

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