I can imagine you may be experiencing nightmare of a headache, and with all of this talk about what the cloud can do for you and why it could be the best decision for your company I don't blame you. There are so many questions and a lot of white noise surrounding the answers.

Cloud adoption is continuing as predicted. IT as we know it is changing and the cloud is the future. Make sure you are planning for the cloud today.

Learn how you can get on the cloud wagon here!

“Be an angel, take a look at my laptop – it’s not working.”  If you are a Business Admin, I bet you have heard that before.  What that statement really means is drop everything else!  This is a priority because this laptop belongs to my boss, who happens to be an Executive and is about to embark on a journey to New York to present to a great prospect.

A new cloud based technology could help to improve the vision of thousands of children around the world. The cloud has endless benefits for the healthcare industry but most of the time we only hear about benefits for the providers. Now we are seeing healthcare technology take advantage of the cloud to deliver improved healthcare to the masses.

The days of printer frustrations are slowly but surely becoming a thing of the past. As the cloud has been growing and developing the cloud printing industry has been growing right alongside. Services such as Google's Cloud Print, Ezeep and UniPrint are leading the way and making printing easier than ever.

Long ago, (well early 1980’s) the inter-department memo consisted of a paper memo which was moved around the company with check boxes to ensure receipt. Thank goodness, email and distribution lists seriously advanced communication practices, however, data was still a challenge.

As we see 2013 moving further and further away in the rear view mirror, I wanted to reflect on one of the most significant technology advances in 25 years that occurred full swing last year. It is now not only easy but extremely prudent for small to medium sized businesses (SMB) to move to the cloud right away!
A Mixed Batch Solution
Over the years, I’ve held many sales and sales management positions and have worked in partnership with most of the large Technology companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, EMC, Oracle, NetApp, and a few more.

Traditional infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to a number of threats including, viruses, human error, hardware failure, software corruption, power outages and unforeseeable natural disasters such as floods and fires. The beauty of the cloud is that if a business loses data for any of these reasons they can be back up and running immediately.

Last week the Security and Exchange Commission shut down a worldwide pyramid scheme that was targeting Asian-American, Hispanic and foreign investors promising high returns for investments from cloud computing services. WCM and WCM777, the companies behind the scheme, raised more than $65 million in 2013. They promised gullible investors that they could double their money in 100 days by investing anywhere from $300 to $1,999 in cloud services.

A key benefit to the cloud is scalability. This allows a business to upscale or downscale their IT requirements when needed. For example, a company creates an incredible product and it starts to take off. The business is growing at a dizzying rate and it’s time to expand.