Cloud Computing – Part 1

WW Works helps organizations move forward in an ever-changing multi sourced world.  Services provided through internal and external cloud systems allow for instant on the spot interactivity to your workplace.  WW Works’ adaptation of the Cloud offers scalable and very situational advantages to your business.

So, What Does Cloud Computing Mean for Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses (“SMB”)?

Today everything is rapid, mobile, connected and most importantly immediate.  The demand for these qualities is paramount and often neglected when it comes to a small business’s managed IT systems. Cloud services provide remote software updates, data access, and storage systems.  WW Works’ Instantiation of Cloud services allows for internal and external connectivity allowing 99.999% uptime to your business systems.  Moving forward there is a huge demand for using the latest software, recent information, higher transfer rates, and greater storage.

Cloud computing is a relatively new phenomenon and catch phrase that everyone is talking about. There are even commercials on TV talking about the “cloud” trying to sell you on how great it is. What is it exactly?? In a nutshell – the cloud is the internet and all it means is that the applications - and the systems the applications run on - are not located in a closet or room near you but are out there in another closet at someone else’s location. You access those systems via the same mechanism that allows you access to the Internet.

You have probably already used cloud computing! If you have had a Gmail or Hotmail account – that is cloud computing! All of your email service is sitting on a system in a datacenter providing you access to the application and you simply need the Internet access to get at it. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet)."

Continue Reading:

What is the Benefit of Cloud Computing? - Part 2
Does Cloud Computing Make Sense for Your Business? - Part 3
Is Cloud Computing Working for Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses? - Part 4