SMBs are Welcoming Cloud-Hosted Technology

The cloud has helped many organizations push beyond their limits, but is yours taking advantage of it? Depending on the needs of your specific company, the cloud can aid your business in ways you could never dream of just 20 years ago. Listed below are some of the best ways the cloud can benefit your business.

The cloud can be utilized to make your business more mobile, scalable, and dynamic with enhanced features and more options than ever before.

Flexibility
The cloud can help your organization's employees be much more flexible with the devices that they can work with. As an example, assume your employees have a Voice over IP application on their desktop and their mobile device. This VoIP can used either with a headset on-site, or on the phone like a traditional handset. This kind of choice empowers employees to test the boundaries of the workplace and be as productive as possible wherever and whenever they happen to be.

Scalable
The cloud permits you to easily control how many employees have access to a software or piece of data that’s stored in the cloud. In the above example with Voice over IP, you might have ten employees at first. Before you know it, you’re starting to experience growth. You have to hire new employees to handle the workload, but the traditional office space would require wires and handsets for each new number. You can instead simply make an account and add a user, eliminating one of the many roadblocks.

Additional Features
The cloud can give your organization the boost it needs via the use of additional features in your cloud-based applications. For example: in regards to Voice over IP, you can take advantage of all of the traditional features of voice calling in addition to more modern communication techniques, such as instant messaging, video conferencing, and more.

Depending on the kind of business you run, a public or private cloud solution will be preferable. If you don’t mind having your data be on a shared cloud infrastructure, then public is a solid way to approach cloud computing. If you’d like more control over your cloud solution, then a private cloud hosted on your own in-house infrastructure can offer more enhanced security and functionality at the expense of having an in-house IT department managing it.

Naturally, the option for a hybrid solution that permits for both high customization and lesser responsibilities on your part can be quite helpful for your business, especially if you don’t have an in-house IT department. To learn more, reach out to the outsourced IT experts from Macro Systems at 703-359-9211.