Imagine sitting in your office (or store, or warehouse), and you’re trying to upload photo files so large that your computer is giving you angry messages all the while wondering how your clients can access them, (or how to juggle the sudden large influx of requests after a promotion you just launched, or tracking the ever-changing inventory).
If your business is lucky enough to have 1) a great IT person on your team and 2) enough cash on hand to purchase large computers, your IT problems might be are solved. However, if you’re like many entrepreneurs in small businesses, your business is probably lacking in these. In fact, some experts argue that an IT person working for an organization with 50 or fewer employees would almost certainly be under-utilized. So, would Cloud computing be an option for you? And what the heck is that, anyway?
If you’re a non-techie person like me, you might think of cloud computing as programs that are floating around up there, somewhere. You’ve heard about it, but don’t truly understand what it all means. Maybe you’re like the 54% who in a recent study claimed that they’ve never used the Cloud, but actually are part of the 95% who have used it, and didn’t know.*
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