Thursday, June 2, 2011

Cloud Computing & Scalability

Businesses often are hesitant to commit to large purposes, but many of the resources associated with cloud computing offer a pay-as-you-go model. Since businesses lease space and bandwidth on hardware owned by the cloud, they now need to only lease the amount of resources necessary to satisfy their immediate needs. They no longer have to buy a top-of-the-line server in hopes of maximum future-proofing only to use 10% of the machine’s processing power.

Now you have the option to instead pay a stable and predictable monthly fee to the cloud provider. This easy and inexpensive scalability also includes storage and RAM upgrades. An increase in disk space or processing power is just quickly within reach.


Many of the providers of top business software either already have a cloud-based version or will soon. Several offer free trial periods, but if that’s not enough, you’ll still most likely only pay a monthly fee, not a full upfront price.

Now leveraging the latest and greatest technology for your company no longer requires huge up-front costs, allowing small businesses to access tools previously available only to corporations with substantial IT budgets.


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