What is cloud computing?

Firstly, cloud computing has been around for a long time.   Any service where your data and the machine that offers you the access to that data (like web mail) is located externally from you would be considered as cloud computing.  The latest generation of cloud services can now see businesses run their operations without owning or being able to physically touch the hardware that holds their data and applications.

In simple terms, cloud services allows you to access and store all your data remotely on external systems.

What are the benefits?

The benefits of cloud services to businesses are simple.   They allow businesses to fix their IT costs and remove the need to have specialised IT staff managing servers and networks.   This frees the business up from spending large amounts of capital on computer servers and either having a dedicated IT staff member to manage their IT environment or out sourcing this task to a third party.   With Cloud Services you simply rent the services you need on a monthly basis.   If you need additional services or functionality you simply add them.   If you don’t need them, cancel that service and only pay for what you need.

How does it work?

Whether your business has one computer or fifty, the principle is the same.   Your internal computer network is securely linked to our own network.   We provide such services as:

• E-mail Services
• Safe and Secure disk storage
• Computer Anti Virus Software
• E-Mail SPAM filtering
• Disaster Recovery protection
• PDA setup to sync with E-Mail & Contacts
• Remote VPN access for mobile laptop users
• Web Hosting
• Access to e-mail via website logon

These are just some of the services which cloud computing can deliver.   What makes this so appealing to businesses is that if you need a new or additional service, you simply add it.   You don’t need to buy new hardware or software and have it installed, you simply sign up for the service and we do the rest.

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